No Carl, you are seeing prejudice where you want to. He made the same generalised without evidence statement you did just from the other point of view.
The point was badly put in the post you quoted but I notice you ignored the post directly above that put the same point better.
We can not, MUST not allow people to just say there are no black managers because football is racist. Evidence is needed.
1) how many black players currently
Hold their licences (why stop there, Asian, Women, Gay: I assume they are all underrepresented in this area: I'd assume we'd want that addressed also?)
2) of those that hold badges how many have held manager posts
3) of those that held posts but no longer hold the post why?
Because funny enough, I'm fairly sure a black manager has the right to be **** & sacked just as much as a white manager. We need to see the actual evidence for institutional racism before we can see how to fix it.
Now this is just a guess but the real "racism" if you want to call it that(inaccurate & simplistic) on this idea is in the communities themselves. John Barnes and others have openly debated that being the athlete is too often a black male child's only goal and that it has to be changed. That culturally their heroes are athletes, not lawyers or managers etc, so maybe you need a group to go to schools & youth groups and encourage that to be the ultimate goal or a just as valuable alternative. Let me think what organisation does things like that: oh yes Kick it out!
As usual with knee jerk media fests, its encouraged many people with no Brains to make accusations & recommendations with no supporting evidence. The real inherent racism everyone is missing is media organisations like the bbc, taking the comments of every black man to talk loudly as a representative of the "group" as a whole (thinking there's a group based on skin colour in the first place is pretty racist too). They do it with Asian and religious groups as well. It's lazy journalism and unwittingly continues to encourage social divides.
