Late-night talk show hosts Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert offered a blend of comedic and serious commentaries about the racial discrimination lawsuit that former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores recently filed against the NFL and its teams. So many explanations have been offered for why all but five head coaches across the League’s 32 teams are white. The 70 percent of NFL players are Black statistic has been repeatedly amplified over the past two weeks. Yet, weirdly, there is one group of people from whom far too little is being heard on this topic: Black NFL insiders.
I suspect we’ve heard so little from current players because of how white team owners, general managers, head coaches, and league executives suppress Black men’s freedom of expression. They pushed Colin Kaepernick out the NFL when he began kneeling in protest of police brutality and systemic racism during…
