If history is a predictor, these terrorists will be identified in due course: Too stupid to successfully cover their tracks.
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Ok, âadministrative leaveâ again. I hope the forces for defunding have a strategy for municipalities like this:
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WTAFâŠ
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An interesting timeline from The Root:
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Surprise, surprise, surpriseâŠ
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See, but that is obviously because Black voters vote fraudulently at 4x the rate of whites! This is proof!
(Oh my god, I need a shower nowâŠ)
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[source: NYT] Good morning. Most N.F.L. players are Black. Only one head coach is.
âBigger than footballâ
Second and even third chances are not that unusual for N.F.L. head coaches. Over their careers, several coaches have run three different teams, and most of them had only mixed records of success before getting the third job. If they had excelled in one of the earlier two jobs, after all, they might have still had it.
The list of coaches to have run at least three teams without having won a Super Bowl includes John Fox, Ted Marchibroda, Wade Phillips, Dan Reeves, Marty Schottenheimer and Norv Turner.
Football fans might notice something about that list: All the coaches on it are white. No Black man has ever been the head coach of three N.F.L. teams. (Romeo Crennel is the closest, having been the coach of two teams and the interim coach of a third team, for part of a season.)
But there are certainly Black coaches whose records resemble those of the white coaches who have had multiple coaching chances. Jim Caldwell, Marvin Lewis, Anthony Lynn, Lovie Smith and, in an earlier era, Dennis Green and Art Shell all won more games than they lost and took teams to the playoffs. They never got a third chance or, in some cases, a second chance to be a head coach.
The Flores lawsuit
Brian Flores seemed as if he might be following this path. Three years ago, he took over the Miami Dolphins, after the team had only one winning season in the previous 10. Under Flores, Miami had a winning record each of the past two years, coming close to the playoffs both times. Still, the Dolphins fired him last month, and no other team has hired him.
On Tuesday, Flores sued the N.F.L. for racial discrimination. It was a remarkable act of defiance: Flores is only 40 years old, and he is probably hurting his chances of getting another job in the insular, conservative N.F.L. â which also happens to be arguably the countryâs most popular form of entertainment.
âItâs hard to speak out,â Flores said on CBS yesterday. âBut,â he added, âthis is bigger than football. This is bigger than coaching.â
Robert Griffin III, a former quarterback, tweeted: âBrian Flores effectively had to end his chances at coaching in the N.F.L. to point out what we already know about discrimination in the hiring process for head coaches in the N.F.L.â
The details of the lawsuit read like something out of a television drama. They include screenshots of an alleged text exchange last month in which Bill Belichick, the leagueâs most successful coach, mistakenly congratulated Flores on getting the job as the head coach of the New York Giants. (Belichick has not confirmed that the exchange happened.)
Flores believes that Belichick meant to send the text to a different coach named Brian â Brian Daboll, who is white. Flores said that when he received the text, he was preparing for his own interview with the Giants. When he realized the text was not intended for him, he understood that Giants executives had already chosen somebody else.
The text exchange included as part of Floresâs lawsuit. An obscenity has been obscured.
Why might the Giants have wanted to interview Flores after having decided to hire Daboll? The N.F.L. requires every team to interview at least one nonwhite candidate for any head coaching job. By conducting a pro forma interview with Flores, the Giants would have been technically following the rule.
Lewis, the former coach of the Cincinnati Bengals, said yesterday that he once had a sham interview with the Carolina Panthers. Lewis said that they had already decided to hire Fox â one of the white coaches who would eventually run three different teams.
Evidence of racism
Finding ironclad proof of racial discrimination is rarely easy, especially in an individual case. And not every allegation of racism is accurate or fair. But the evidence that the N.F.L. has engaged in a pattern of discrimination against Black coaches is strong:
- A 2019 academic analysis commissioned by the N.F.L. confirmed that Black coaches were less likely to receive second chances. âIn the NFL,â The Atlanticâs Jemele Hill recently wrote, âBlack coaches are expected to perform miracles quickly, and when they donât, it usually costs them their job.â
- In a 32-team league where most players are Black â and that has long been the case â only one current head coach is Black. He is Mike Tomlin, who has one of the highest winning percentages of any active coach.
- Teams have also been reluctant to hire Black coaches as offensive coordinator â a job that often leads to head coaching positions, as Tyler Tynes noted in The Ringer. An academic study concluded that the low rate at which teams hired Black candidates for coordinator jobs was the No. 1 reason that white head coaches dominate the league.
- Even when Black coordinators succeed in those jobs, they are sometimes passed over for white candidates with weaker rĂ©sumĂ©s. In last yearâs Super Bowl, both offensive coordinators â Eric Bieniemy of the Kansas City Chiefs and Byron Leftwich of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers â were Black. Neither has become a head coach, even as 14 teams have hired new coaches since the end of last season.
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Iâm pleased to know it was a Black man who created mac & cheese, considering its importance in Black American food culture!
Ball notes how even humble macaroni and cheese maintains lofty ties to our founding fathers. To her, the history of food is essential. The first recipes incorporating pasta and cheese date to 14th century Italy; the dish evolved and migrated across the continent. Thomas Jefferson tasted the dish when visiting Europe, bringing back the concept to his chef. Ball explains, âHe was an enslaved African man named James Hemings, who perfected macaroni and cheese as we know it today, which is a staple in soul food and a big deal in Black culture.
And yes, this chef was Jeffersonâs son with Sally Hemings:
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Former mayor Bud Clark just died (at age 90) and the media can hardly avoid reminding everyone that the most significant thing he did as mayor was to try to stand up to the cops
So that was like 40 years ago and there havenât been any significant reforms since then
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Arguably the biggest reform introduced lately was the one Joanne Hardesty snuck into the last budget prohibiting the city from rehiring cops who were part of the anti-BLM protest enforcement.
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This contains interesting points about mental health, stress, and ways of managing it. Unique pressures faced by athletes, members of the Black community, and women are also discussed:
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