Perspective: What did Tommy Tuberville learn from football? That players are pawns in a seedier sort of game.
Then, further complicating matters, Tuberville tried to defend himself by using his football past as a shield.
After CNN’s Kaitlan Collins cued up Tuberville’s earlier comments in which he chose to refer to white nationalists as simply “Americans,” she gave him the floor to respond. Seemingly, Tuberville had been prepared to give a sane answer.This would’ve been sufficient — disavow racism emphatically and stop pandering to a fringe base. But Tuberville kept talking, and in the next breath he revealed the shallowness of his sincerity.
“I was a football coach for 40 years. And I’ve dealt, and had opportunity, to be around more minorities than anybody up here on this Hill,” he said, stumbling a bit while saving himself from what would have been a cringeworthy sentence:Tuberville once worked in a profession that still lags in racial diversity. Heading into the new calendar year, onlyat Football Bowl Subdivision schools were Black men — just a touch over 10 percent.
Though Tuberville may have “dealt” with minorities — in other words, the Black boys whose talents made him a multimillionaire — that doesn’t mean he understands them. Tuberville might have spent four decades in football, including 10 seasons as the coach of the Auburn Tigers, but the time served doesn’t justify him as a champion for diversity.
Instead, all those years taught Tuberville a special kind of social intelligence. He learned what to say to convince Black mamas and daddies to send their sons to his program. How to cultivate a relationship that lasts until the ink is dry on a national letter of intent. But judging by how easy it has been for Tuberville to operate from the Trumpian playbook — stoke
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