NFL owners who donated to Trump have fewer black executives than other teamsAs you can see in the figure below, the owners who donated to Trump have consistently had fewer black executives — general managers and vice presidents — than teams whose owners did not donate to the president’s inaugural committee. As the right-hand display further shows, owners who did not donate to Trump have had, on average, about three times as many black executives per team as Trump-donor owners. There’s a bit of evidence that NFL teams with Trump-donating owners have also had fewer black players on their rosters in recent years. It is difficult to draw any strong inferences from such small samples of both NFL owners and of black executives. My simple analyses cannot offer much insight as to why there are fewer black executives on Trump-supporting teams, let alone speak to whether these owners are discriminating.

Source: Washington Post September 25, 2017 13:58 UTC