'UNACCEPTABLE': Black Women Sack the NFL

[Shayn•Da•Pain]

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-S...Violence-Panel

An African American women's group labels it "unacceptable" that the NFL did not include any black women as consultants on its new domestic violence panel.
On September 15, the NFL announced the creation of a new advisory group to help it deal with its response to instances of domestic abuse among players, coaches, and league owners. The effort includes three white women as members of the advisory group.
But while the Black Women's Roundtable, a group that claims to represent black females of all ages, celebrated the National Football League's decision to create the advisory panel on domestic violence, it noted the absence of black women for a panel that will examine cases in a majority-black league. African-American women constitute the alleged victims in several of the current cases against players.
The group said in a statement that the "lack of inclusion of women of color, especially black women who are disproportionately impacted by domestic violence and sexual assault; and the fact that over 66% of the NFL players are made up of African-Americans, is unacceptable."
To counter claims that its domestic violence effort is somehow unbalanced, the NFL noted that it already had two African American women on its leadership team. The NFL's director of player engagement and education, Deana Garner, and the vice president of strategic development and operations in player engagement, Kim Fields, are both black.
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The NFL makes an advisory group to the NFL on domestic abuse, and they don't include a black woman, when the NFL is 66% African-American.

[the Brain]

They have a point.

But then again, why have an advisory panel made of women when 100% of the league is male?

[buckeye]

They have a point.

But then again, why have an advisory panel made of women when 100% of the league is male?

I would say that is the bigger issue by far although the panel isn't there to represent the players interest. The panel is in place as a watchdog for league approval ratings.

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[albidnis]

'UNACCEPTABLE': Black Women Sack the NFL

I was thinking that the problem here would be that these white woman would not be able to identify with most of what the black athletes in the NFL have gone through in their lives.

But then I thought, even if they chose a black woman, she would probably not be able to identify with them either...lol. It would probably be a corporate type that never really went through any of the same obstacles that many of these athletes go through from age 0.

Really at the end of the day, the NFL is protecting themselves which is smart, and people will complain no matter what.

[MrBill]

So the NFL makes the Rooney clause a policy to make sure that minority coaches are interviewed for every position that opens at the coaching level in the league and then fails to include a single minority representative to a board to oversee the hottest issue to hit the league in the past decade? You can't make this shit up

[MmmmBeeeeer]

Yep gotta make sure there are black women on there, who cares if the white women might be more qualified in their expertise...that does not matter.



Lisa Friel, former head of sex-crimes prosecution for the Manhattan district attorney;
Jane Randel, co-founder of NO MORE, an advocacy group focusing on domestic violence and sexual assault
Rita Smith, the former executive director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

The group complaining about this has nothing to do with domestic violence, they exist to get more black women into politics and civic engagement. Of course they are going to object to this.

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

Ray Rice is the only black athlete not married to a white debutante or a Kardasian so there was no need.