College football has traditionally been led by White coaches who follow a conservative script. But Deion Sanders, the NFL Hall of Famer and shades-wearing new football coach at the undefeated University of Colorado, is bringing an unapologetically Black swagger to the sport – and a welcome boost of pride and hope to Black America.
After his team’s first victory earlier this month, University of Colorado football coach Deion Sanders said something remarkable. He talked bluntly about racism and football in a way that few Black coaches at an elite level are willing to do. “We’re doing things that have never been done, and that makes people uncomfortable,” Sanders said.
For years, no major league baseball team would hire a Black manager or general manager. In 1987, Al Campanis, then the general manager for the Los Angeles Dodgers, was fired after he said in a televised interview that Black people did not have the “necessities’ to run baseball teams. Black men weren’t considered intelligent enough to play quarterback, a stereotype quarterback Doug Williams largely erased when he won the Super Bowl in 1988 with the Washington Redskins.
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