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01/08/2009: "Black men turned down for jobs because their wives are White"
Strong, when I asked him if his interracial marriage to a white wife has been factor in him never being offered a head-coaching job despite an illustrious career that has spanned a quarter-century, shook his head affirmatively.
In fact, there was one job at a southern school he interviewed for a few years ago when he says he heard it too many times to simply discard it as a vicious rumor.
"Everybody always said I didn't get that job because my wife is white," said Strong as he prepared Florida's defense for Thursday's national championship showdown with Oklahoma.
Strong isn't the only one. It has been reported that one of the reasons Buffalo coach Turner Gill didn't get the job at Auburn is because his wife is white. The job went to Iowa State coach Gene Chizik even though Gill seemed to have the more impressive head-coaching credentials. On ESPN's "Outside The Lines," reporter Mark Schlabach said two SEC coaches told him that because Gill is married to a white woman there was no way he was going to get the Auburn job.
[ The same Blacks who discriminate in this way are the sort of people who would be furious if a White man didn't get a job because Whites didn't like that he was a race-mixer. But can you imagine that a White would be treated like that in this day and age? It should happen, but it doesn't. ]
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