
President Joe Biden laid out some harsh realities for the NFL on Sunday and characterised the league’s lack of Black head coaches as a clear-cut issue of decency and racist barriers that needed to be broken down.
The president’s Super Bowl interview with NBC News touched on the controversy faced by league team owners regarding the ongoing lack of diversity in NFL coaching staff; despite making up more than half of the league’s player base, only three head coaching jobs in the league are currently held by people of colour. Just one is Black.