Yesterday I enjoyed watching the NFC and AFC championship games. The Chicago Bears and Indianapolis\u00c2\u00a0Colts both advanced to the Superbowl. It was only in watching the post-game coverage that I realized this Superbowl is now considered historic as both coaches are African-American. Never before has an African-American head coach made it to the Superbowl.<\/p>\n
That the game analysts felt it necessary to discuss the coaches’\u00c2\u00a0ethnicity seems racist to me. African-Americans have achieved\u00c2\u00a0enough that it should no longer be news\u00c2\u00a0that someone who has accomplished something great has a\u00c2\u00a0dark\u00c2\u00a0complexion.<\/p>\n
It seems that true equality for African-Americans will arrive when the first African-American to accomplish something is not referred to as “the first African-American to….”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday I enjoyed watching the NFC and AFC championship games. The Chicago Bears and Indianapolis\u00c2\u00a0Colts both advanced to the Superbowl. It was only in watching the post-game coverage that I realized this Superbowl is now considered historic as both coaches are African-American. Never before has an African-American head coach made it to the Superbowl. That … Continue reading “Racism rears its head”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-media-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}