The Arizona Cardinals have a well documented history of diverse hiring practices. For one, they were the first NFL team to pair a black GM (Rod Graves) with a black head coach (Denny Green).
No one can point the finger at the Cardinals for being averse to hiring people of color. Moreover, Bruce Arians was one of the first head coaches to hire a female assistant. Therefore, the Cardinals’ open-mindedness with regard to their hiring practices should not be a topic for debate.
However, what happened to Steve Wilks, the Cardinals second black head coach, is concerning on a number of different levels, including one salient aspect of Steve Wilks’ recent accusations of racial discrimination.