We’re a year and a half removed from a summer in which college athletics departments, like many other corporations in this country, said they cared about its Black athletes and employees after the murder of George Floyd. They marched and they listened. They made statements and then they made some actions. And, as always, they valued those athletes and employees only to a point. It’s always someone else’s responsibility to improve diversity until you take stock of the fact that few have truly done what’s necessary.
Former Dolphins coach Brian Flores is suing one such corporation, the NFL, laying bare again the inequities in the league’s hiring practices.