The new coach of the New England Patriots has the voice of a collegiate justice director.

Last week marked the end of an era when Bill Belichick, the most successful football head coach of all time, announced his resignation as the New England Patriots’ head coach.

(I don’t really like Belichick; as a lifelong supporter of the Los Angeles (and St. Louis) Rams, I continue to have doubts regarding the “Spygate” discoveries, which were purported to have an impact on Super Bowl 36, which was Belichick and Tom Brady’s first of many titles in the 2000s and 2010s.)

It’s debatable whether Brady or Belichick contributed more to New England’s success at the time, but the outcomes unmistakably show that Belichick is a superior coach.

Jerod Mayo was named by New England as Belichick’s replacement on Wednesday. The Patriots displayed a graphic of Mayo’s playing career accomplishments on X; he was a first-round selection, an All-Pro once, and a Pro Bowl participant twice.

However, what was his background as a coach? He is, after all, stepping into very big shoes.

Let’s see. He spent a couple years coaching the Pats’ “inside linebackers.” Without any prior head coaching experience or even coordinator experience, whether it is defensive or offensive.

I will be the first to admit that effective coaching requires many unique “intangibles,” chief among them the capacity for motivation and empathy, particularly in this day of overpaid athletes. Mayo might own that. It’s a little difficult to think that Belichick and Pats owner Robert Kraft, who reportedly suggested Mayo take over as head coach, would select a player they thought had this talent. We’ll see.

The fact that Mayo’s comments at the news conference directly contradict owner Kraft’s declaration from a minute or so earlier that he believes in “colorblindness” is something that many social media clips of the event don’t show.

While this happened in the academy, Mayo at least refrained from calling Kraft a “racist” or something such. And especially in the present, Mayo’s perspective is hardly unusual.

The inherent inconsistencies in DEI-related (diversity, equality, and inclusion) problems can be so overwhelming that trying to make sense of them all can drive a sensible person insane.

For example, José-Antonio Orosco of Oregon State University argues that “in trying to ignore race, we may in fact ignore racism,” which is similar to Mayo’s claim that color “doesn’t really matter… but it does matter.” Race is “a social construct without biological meaning,” according to the University of Southern Indiana, but it also states that “race is, of course, real” and that “we do not mean to say that somehow race is not real.”

Black and brown pupils, according to a past Delaware teacher of the year, want teachers to “celebrate it” in addition to “seeing their color.”

However, as David Marcus of The Weekly Standard noted a few years ago, colorblindness “doesn’t mean that you don’t see skin color.” It indicates that you make an effort to avoid making rash decisions based only on skin tone.

To the dismay of progressives, a large number of Black individuals share these sentiments (among them, Todd Bowles, the coach of the Tampa Bay Bucs, who plays in Sunday’s NFL divisional round):