http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42623021 The Football Association will interview at least one applicant from a black, Asian and minority ethnic background for future roles in the England set-up. English football's governing body will adopt its own version of the 'Rooney Rule' implemented in the NFL in 2003. Chief executive Martin Glenn said the move showed the "FA is for all". "The FA wants to become a more inclusive organisation where the workforce more represents the people who play football today," Glenn said. Speaking to BBC Sport, he added: "What it will say is the opportunity to have a career beyond playing is something that the FA is serious about promoting." The Rooney Rule, named after NFL diversity committee chairman Dan Rooney, requires clubs in American football to interview at least one BAME candidate for each head coach or senior football operation vacancy. The FA says this move will apply to jobs across England teams but BAME applicants will still need to show they meet the relevant recruitment criteria. English Football League clubs agreed to introduce their own version of the 'Rooney Rule' from 1 January but the same measure has been applied to roles in their academies since June. Research conducted in November showed 22 of 482 roles across England's top-four leagues were filled by coaches from BAME backgrounds
This country does my nut in. If the FA are choosing to not interview candidates base on gender or the colour of their skin then it needs to be sorted out and the people making those desicions need to be moved on. Putting a rule in place is almost as racist/sexist as the current system as the FA will now have token candidates who have no chance of the job. There's no way round it and there are no rules that can be put in place to resolve this, you have to get rid of the people who think in this way.
Agree ... there should be one unequivocal rule ... best person for the job gets it .... regardless of gender, sexual orientation, colour, creed or anything else for that matter ... simples.
Problem is getting rid of the twats who don't think in this way and adding a token rule isn't going to do that.
Brent council adopted that policy in the 80's and now have a token a caucasian person working for them.
So what happens if no one from an "ethnic minority background" applies for the job? Do they pull some random asian guy off the street and interview him for the job?
Complete batshit. Arse backwards and non-conducive to equality. But lets face it, we dont have equality, because you will go to prison for twice as long a sentence for beating up a gay man as you would a straight man. This country is ****ed. A complete 180 degree turn, where instead of minorities being victimised and abused, its now the straight white male who is abused and victimised because of the sins of his forefathers. How about we just treat everyone the same, abuse no one and stop being ****ing idiots?! Common sense needs to prevail here.
Nope, its like the BBC get rid of the old ones and get the same but younger. You need to burn the script.
You have 5 candidates. 3 are white, 1 is black and 1 is Asian. The 3 white are the most qualified and experienced for the job. Yet 2 of them have to be rejected to incorporate the black man and Asian man. So essentially 2 miss out and 2 go through based on their ethnicity. The definition of discrimination surely? The FA at its best.
Exactly, its the dictionary definition of discrimination, "The prejudicial treatment of people based on their race, age or gender".
But just what if this little action is necessary to root out the real problem of actual racism within the organisation? I'm sure there have been many incidents in the past that have stunk of racism....and this is a step in eradicating it. It's like when the Police or other services have special opportunities for ethnic minorities. Maybe it's because someone somewhere realises that the change won't come due to society in general therefore we have to make the change happen. If an organisation is 95% Caucasian and might be depleted to 90% Caucasian due to the drive to get in ethnics..then in the grand scheme of things you must be a mug to think it is discriminating against Caucasian folk as a rule.
Discrimination to beat discrimination? Doesn't stack up for me. What are you going to do - positively discriminate white people in the future who have missed out on job opportunity because of this discriminatory rule? Impossible to quantify.
Yup. This is typical of the new wave of thinking atm and its hypocritical bullshit. Attempt to prevent discrimination to one group(s) by discriminating another. Not equality. Another one - 'Black Lives Matter'. Why not 'All Lives Matter?'
Then that person would be a ****ing idiot. You cannot MAKE people not be racist. They are either racist or they aint. Like Luv says, the key is weeding out the racist ****s and getting rid of them and then change will happen in the organisation organically. Trying to legislate this **** will not work and will achieve nothing in the real sense. And besides, do minorities want to be reluctantly tolerated by enforcement? or wholeheartedly accepted with sincerity?
