Black football agents face another hurdle: Convincing White players to sign with them

[basquebromance]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/04/29/nfl-black-agents-white-clients/

best excerpts from the article:

History was made last year when 17 of the 32 first-round draft picks were represented by Black agents. But that progress comes with an asterisk, Black agents say: Most still don’t have a single White client on their rosters.⁠
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“They go with who they’re most comfortable with,” Greg Linton of HOF Player Representatives said about most White players. “Even though they’re around Black athletes, they just don’t relate to Black agents.”⁠
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This year’s draft offers a counterpoint: Not only did quarterback Trevor Lawrence communicate with Black agents after he declared for the draft, he picked one. Lawrence, widely expected to be the No. 1 pick, selected MGC Sports as his representative. While Jay Courie, who is White, represents Lawrence as his lead agent, Sean Howard, a Black man, who previously had the pair of White first-rounders, is listed among the three other agents on the Standard Representation Agreement.⁠

 

[MarathonMike]

Gosh after all the NFL has done to foster goodwill between the races, this is shocking.

 

[$ecular#eckler]

How about Colin Kaepernick - what race is his attorney? How about LeBron James?

https://www.sacbee.com/sports/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/article132419944.html

 

[MarcATL]

Their racism is showing. As if it weren't already.

 

[DudleySmith]

Their racism is showing. As if it weren't already.

How many gold chains are hoping to buy with your 'reparations' check? Gonna go Mr. T on us?

 

[MarathonMike]

Their racism is showing. As if it weren't already.

I wonder if Black NFL agents wear NFL approved BLM T-Shirts and Kapearnik pig socks?

 

[DudleySmith]

Their racism is showing. As if it weren't already.

I wonder if Black NFL agents wear NFL approved BLM T-Shirts and Kapearnik pig socks?

Malcolm X is an 'uncle Tom' according to these feral street rats , so we know they aren't wearing one of his; maybe a George Floyd or a Jeffrey Daumer shirt.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

White players know they will not get representation from a black agent.

 

[Rocko]

If you choose your representation based on skin color you’re an idiot. Why are the white players picking white agents getting accused of this and the black players picking blacks agents not getting accused of it?