Mike McDaniel, the new coach of the Dolphins, said it was “weird” how fixated the media has been on his racial identity during his introductory press conference on Thursday.
ESPN and their reporters have made it a point to mention that he “identifies himself as biracial.” Just in case you haven’t heard the many hundreds of times it has been tioned, McDaniel’s father is Black and his mother is white.
During the press conference, he was asked about the ways that his racial identity has been discussed.
“It’s been very odd to tell you the truth,” McDaniel said.
“This idea of identifying as something. I think people identify me as something, but I identify as a human being. My dad’s Black, so whatever you want to call it … I know there’s a lot of people with a shared experience.”
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McDaniel has been catching hell for his comments, but he does have one former QB on his side.
Robert Griffin took to Twitter and spoke in defense of McDaniel while calling out the league for using him as a political ploy.
