NEW ORLEANS – A considerable list of corporations and businesses in the United States have announced they are shuttering their diversity, equity and inclusion programs because they apparently figured out that hiring based on race or gender doesn’t often lead to finding the most qualified people. Well, the NFL doesn’t share that opinion and isn’t rolling back its DEI program.
The NFL’s robust DEI arm is going to remain, commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday. And his defense of the league’s DEI program was so positioned as to make it sound as if it’s not about tipping the scales to minorities and women at all.