Cease me in the event you’ve heard this earlier than — Roger Goodell mentioned one thing silly and woke. 

The NFL commissioner was talking at a press convention in Phoenix forward of Sunday’s Tremendous Bowl matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and mentioned how he thinks the NFL must do extra to rent minority women and men into positions of energy. There have been many initiatives enacted by the league to advertise “range” in its hiring practices throughout Goodell’s tenure, however apparently it is nonetheless missing.

“There’s higher work and extra work forward of us,” he mentioned. “I believe there’s progress and we’re happy to see progress but it surely’s by no means sufficient.”

Fascinating, as a result of in the event you’re somebody obsessive about range in your workforce and getting blacks in positions of energy, you’d in all probability be proud of what you noticed within the NFL. Six head coaches are black or different minority (with the potential for a seventh as a result of the Arizona Cardinals at the moment have a emptiness). That is 18.5%, whereas blacks as a share of the U.S. inhabitants are 13%. Moreover, 13 defensive coordinators are black (with the prospect for 4 slots to be stuffed earlier than subsequent season). Whereas the league cannot assure that the pores and skin make-up of the folks in these positions will probably be even, it doesn’t need to. 

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However that’s all misplaced on the race-obsessed, who would say that there are solely two black offensive coordinators within the NFL is proof of racism. And so they gripe about any scenario by which a black man shouldn’t be given one thing they imagine he’s due — take the narrative that surrounds Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy for instance (spoiler — its fully bogus). 

All of this isn’t stunning, for the reason that social justice mindset is all about making extra progress for blacks within the pursuit of equality. Whereas that sounds good on the floor, the goals of some who subscribe to this worldview are way more — dare I say – sinister.

“Equality” of their minds doesn’t imply equal alternative or equal final result. On this worldview, equality really means giving a sure group of individuals — on this case, black, but it surely may very well be LGBT, Hispanics, Girls, and so on. –preferred therapy and permitting that group of individuals to have energy and alternatives they had been denied prior to now.

Nonetheless, passable “progress” isn’t achieved (as Goodell’s quote alludes to), as a result of in the event you imagine in the sort of “justice,” there’s extra to be performed in any space. In need of mandating each coach within the league be black, social justice warriors will all the time declare disparity.

It is easy to nod together with Goodell’s platitudes or simply ignore them. However simple does not make proper.

When you function from a mindset in that any scenario, alternative, or final result doesn’t profit black folks in an equal or larger method is proof of racism, then you might simply discover it in lots of locations. It’s a college of thought that’s inflicting hurt in numerous areas of tradition, together with the NFL. Seeing racism all over the place in 2023 is counterfactual and detrimental. It robs the “victims” of company.

We can’t overlook that we struggle this worldview as a result of it’s antithetical to American philosophy and is a not-so-subtle type of Marxism. Give it some thought, if we dwell in a rustic that now values elevating one class on the expense of one other, is that actually equality? Is not that slavery, racism, and oppression, the issues that black folks declare they hate and what faraway from tradition? The one distinction is that the oppression is directed at a unique ethnic group. It turns historical past into an immoral cycle. The oppressed change into the oppressors, till the wheel turns and another person is on high.

It’s price exposing, not only for the sanity of this era, however to protect a noble America for the subsequent.