Black Intel

LOS ANGELES — If I were Dan Rooney about now, I’d be demanding that my name be removed from the so-called Rooney Rule. He was integral in establishing the rule seven years ago in the spirit of diversity, to provide legitimate NFL opportunities for minority candidates who deserved to be considered for head-coaching and executive positions.

Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice…If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself,” a quote from author, orator and journalist, William Pickens.