Letter: Another Perspective on Rhodes Firing

Letter: Another Perspective on Rhodes' Firing

Dear Mark:

Your comments [in the Mark's View opinion on the Ray Rhodes firing] are thoughtful.

Yet, be careful in seeing the issue as a "golden chute" for Ray Rhodes and not the same in other occupational niches for Mr. and Mrs. Anybody.

If the letter from Rainbow/PUSH is not clear I feel they were trying to point out that African Americans get few opportunities at the head coach level in the NFL and after one season in Green Bay the coach is sacked. Is is fair? Maybe.

But, in the annual re-cycling of NFL head coaches many, many white coaches with inferior records get hired over and over and over again.

A little more perspective would have helped.

Earl Smith
Wake Forest University