do men, who do not believe in white male privilege/entitlement oppose affirmative action?

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30. I think your example of the NFL is bad, here's why.

I do not believe that the lack of NFL head coaches that are black has a lot to do with overt racism at THAT level, but rather institutional racism lower down the ranks. Let me digress.

In today's NFL, most of the head coaches are former offensive coordinators that came up through the ranks. Offense sells tickets, offensive minded teams are exciting. Offensive coordinators get promoted to head coaches a lot. Who makes up most of the offensive coordinators? Either ex high school, college, or NFL quarterbacks who ran passing-attack style of offenses.

Most quarterbacks who played the game in a true air-attack style of play were white. You rarely, ever, see a black quarterback sitting there as a pure pocket passer. They all get labeled the running-quarterback. The only pure passing black quarterback I can think of is Warren Moon (and boy was he good). The other black quarterbacks who had some NFL success were all "running-types" including: a few off the top of my head include Randall Cunningham, Steve McNair, Kordell Stewart, Charlie Batch, and Donavan McNabb (but he probably more noted as a passer than runner), Dante Culpepper, and now Cam Newton and Robert Griffin.

I think the blatant racism in football starts at the high school level where coaches in the big football states of Ohio and Texas make their black quarterbacks run the option and let the white kids stand back there and learn to throw.

I see this as institutional racism, not a "we cannot have the CEO be black". Just my opinion.