Color in Coaching: How racial games are played in the NFL

As always, things are infinitely easier when you judge people as people, and not as representatives of a race. These affirmative-action questions, which pop up in every area of American life, get so dreary, we tire of making the usual points and arguments: What if there's a half-black coach? Do you have to interview another half-black coach-or another "fully" black coach, making one and a half, total-to be in compliance with Rooney?

And one thinks of another question, with deep roots in the abolition and civil-rights movements (not to mention the Bible): How long, Lord? How long will we bend under a racial storm, until dumb color washes away?

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