Doyel: The white privilege protecting Dana White kept me out of jail.
Kept me out of the news. Kept me out of jail.When the Greenwood Police officer started digging through his wallet, this is what I thought:This is what I asked him: “Are you looking for your Miranda card? Are you gonna read me my rights?”I’d just gotten home from Kroger one morning in July 2020. There was a police car outside my apartment building, with an officer standing next to it.
Now I’m asking if the suspect left DNA – “Yes sir,” he says – and asking him to swab my cheek right now. I’ve got nothing to hide. Wasn’t me.A little, he says. So many people hate the idea of “white privilege.” If life were so easy for us, they say, why am I not doing better? As if white privilege were a winning card to play. It’s the opposite, really: It’s the absence of what is, in too many people’s minds, a losing card.
That’s the history. More recently, the NFL grapples today with decidedly unequal hiring practices in a league where nearly 70% of players are Black, but more than 80% of head coaches are white. Four of the last 10 coaches fired after one year for performance reasons, including Houston’s David Culley in 2021 and Lovie Smith in 2022, were Black. Dating to 1999, of the last 16 coaches fired for performance reasons after one season, six were black. That’s 38.5%.
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