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    The NFL’s Dubious Rhetoric About Race

    The league’s public-relations spin about diversity doesn’t hold up in private.
    by Jemele Hill Sep 17, 2023 5 minutes
    NFL Network reporter Jim Trotter at press conference at Phoenix Convention Center.
    Source: Kirby Lee / USA Today Sports / Reuters

    At every turn, the NFL portrays itself as being deeply committed to racial progress. It has a $250 million social-justice fund. It created and then expanded a rule designed to give candidates of color a shot at leadership roles. The league even had “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a hymn often described as the Black national anthem, performed alongside “The Star-Spangled Banner” during kickoff weekend. But a contrasting picture of how the league really views matters of racial justice keeps coming into clearer focus.

    Earlier this week, the , who is Black, , accusing it of retaliation. The journalist alleges that the network, which is owned by the NFL, didn’t renew his contract because about the league’s poor diversity record during the commissioner’s Super Bowl press

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