The Kraft Group, owner of the New England Patriots, is under fire for running an ad for a sports management job that requires applicants to be not be white.
Under skills and qualifications, the first listing for the sports management assistance position is “BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and Person of Color).”
A screenshot of the ad posted on Facebook continues to draw daily criticism on the social media platform.
It has also caught the attention of sports writers including Boston Globe sports columnist Jeff Jacoby.
The Kraft Group did not respond to inquiries from The Epoch Times about its advertised race-based job qualifications.
“For more context, ZipRecruiter has an established Trust & Safety team and Job Quality team that review listings on accounts that are brought to their attention via a system flag or job seeker complaint,” the employment search engine giant told the paper.
Mr. Mayo, who talked about diversity and inclusion during the press conference, countered Mr. Kraft said, “I do see in color because if you don’t see color, you can’t see racism.”
The BIPOC job ad controversy comes on the heels of a wider, national debate brewing on discrimination against whites in the workforce.
Under Title VII, the same federal law, now being used to protect against discrimination of transgender people in the workplace, employment based on race and color is considered discrimination.
The examples included an announcement made by Microsoft that it would set a quota for the number of black-owned approved suppliers over three years and demand annual “diversity disclosures” from its top 100 suppliers, “implying that suppliers that did not adopt their own racially discriminatory policies would suffer consequences,” the attorneys general stated in the letter.
It cited similar racially discriminatory hiring practices by Airbnb, Apple, Cisco, Facebook, Google, Intel, Lyft, Microsoft, Netflix, Paypal, Snapchat, TikTok, and Uber.
“Treating people differently because of the color of their skin, even for benign purposes, is unlawful and wrong,” the attorneys general wrote. “Companies that engage in racial discrimination should and will face serious legal consequences.”
As part of its probe into the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s enforcement of Title VII, the congressmen also asked for all documents and communications relating to the Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Massachusetts, considered one of the bluest states in the country, was steeped in anti-white controversy when Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, sent out an invitation for a Christmas party last year that expressly excluded white city officials.
The invite to the non-white-only celebration—sent out accidentally by one of her aides—was titled “Electeds of Color Holiday Party.”
A barrage of mocking statements that Ms. Wu, a Democrat and Boston’s first Asian mayor, was “not dreaming of a White Christmas” ensued on various social media and editorial platforms.
The sports management job advertised by The Kraft Group also said it was seeking candidates who graduated from college within the last two years, which some on social media also took as age discrimination—which is also prohibited under Title VII.
Northern New England is home to three of the whitest states in the country—Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. In contrast, its three southern states—Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut—are more ethnically mixed, with whites making up between 60 and 69 percent of their population.
