Solomon: The curious and complicated history of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and racism.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is glad that 'we're a long way' from the 1957 when integration began in Arkansas public schools.Let Jerry Jones tell it, he showed up outside his high school in North Little Rock, Ark., on September 9, 1957, in the same manner as Forrest Gump did at a George Wallace gathering at the University of Alabama six years later.
We are not all heroes or villains. There is significant room between these two extremes in human behavior. The story points out that Jones has never hired a Black head coach and has been slow to acknowledge that diversity at that level should be a priority in the NFL. “I didn’t know at the time the monumental event, really, that was going on,” he said. “I’m sure glad that we’re a long way from that. I am.
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