you’re being naive - a billionaire owner vs a young black man with no job security - the power dynamics do not shift at all
just like they didn’t with kaepernick
the league decided he was expendable and that was that - the morality of it was completely meaningless, the power dynamics did not change at all based on the narrative framing
Sure they do. Maybe not power in terms of job stability, but that never existed anyway. That's the nature of a Owner vs Employee relationship... the power can never be equal.
The power Flores has by calling out a current boss is a) people are more prone to believe him and b) he maintains significantly more credibility.
He greatly reduces both by waiting until its convenient for him to do it.
I don't blame him for waiting, because I wouldn't assume the risk he did either. What I absolutely blame him for is trying to sell people on the idea he's doing this for a moral stance, or that he's all of the sudden just now realized how wrong Ross was to do it. If it's wrong today, it was wrong 3 years ago when it happened.
Spare the public the self-righteousness. Any intelligent person is going to see right through that BS. Just say what it is. You're a black head coach, you don't think you should have gotten fired, and you think it was racist that you did. And you think others aren't giving you a fair shake. Just say that.
As I said before, nobody on Earth can make the leap that Ross offering him money to lose games is a race issue. That's brought up, intentionally, by Flores, because he wants to make a former employer look bad for firing him. It has nothing to do with whether or not there's racial issues in the hiring process. They're two dramatically different things.
Hence, where the "I'm doing this to effect systemic change" concept falls apart for me.
