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thats the thing though Theo , it doesnt work everywhere else does it, and even if everywhere else its get you an interview they dont see the color of your skin until you walk in the door, its different with professional sport, everyone already knows who you are. whether we want to admit it or not institutional racism is rife, the negative stereotypes attached to coloured skin are ingrained in society, and we have ALL been guilty of it at some point even if its unintentional ( and yes i'm not proud of it but i include myself in that)
we can talk how much about how "positive" discrimination is wrong and that the best person should get the job regardless of race ....yeah great, unfortunately most of the people who hand out the jobs dont think like that intentionally or unintentionally , so until there is a fundamental shift is societies thinking we need things like the rooney rule to ensure a certain degree of equality
because honestly if it isnt forced it will NEVER happen and attitudes wont change, lets not forget 100 years ago it was a commonly held belief among the powers that be that women should not get to vote because they were not the best people to do it. women having the vote had to be forced into existence and we now look back at that level of thinking with disgust and rightly so.