Quote:I don't think I completely agree.  You can hire someone and still be racist.  They are making him money no?  Money is color blind.  He hired a black coach because he thought he could coach.  Has nothing to do with being inferior or not.  He can hire black people and still think less of them and also think they are inferior.  There is 100 hours of recordings.  He better hope those don't come out...

 

Hiring a person is indicative of the supposition of superiority and therefore anathema to a true racist. Racists aren't just about exclusion, they are about subjugation and the destruction of an inferior form of (sub)human life. True racism is so much more awful than the very bad bigotry we experience in our reasonably tolerant society that we demean the concept when we apply it incorrectly (as I believe we have in this case). Not wanting to associate with people of color is many levels less evil than genocide, slavery, or the pogrom.

 

But this guy is surely an [BLEEP] hole and I hope he's ostracized from society.

---