Julio Ricardo Varela is the founder of Latino Rebels and an award-winning journalist.
During a news conference Wednesday introducing Jerod Mayo as the new coach of the New England Patriots, Mayo, the first Black head coach the Patriots have ever had, put the NFL on notice that he’s not too timid to discuss race, not even after the team's owner had just said he was “really colorblind” when hiring Mayo. “I want to get the best people I can get,” Patriots owner Robert Kraft said in introducing Mayo. “I chose the best head coach for this organization,” Kraft said.
” In December, the city of Boston finally apologized to the two Black men falsely accused of killing Carol Stuart in 1989. The extraordinary work from HBO and The Boston Globe about the Stuart murder opened up a necessary conversation about how racist the Boston area really was and, in some cases, still is. Seeing a photo of Mayo with his family on the front page of a sports section exuding joy can be a symbol of what is possible. In Boston, such a photo is a rare sight.
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