“You are the first black head coach to go to a national championship game in college football,” McGrath said.

The crowd applauded her statement.

However, by touting the fact that Freeman was the first black football coach to take his team to a championship game, she completely ignored his Asian heritage and background. Freeman’s mother is Korean, and he is as much Asian American as black American. So, legitimately, if McGrath celebrated Freeman being black, she should have also celebrated Freeman being Asian. However, she didn’t, and the fact that she didn’t is indicative of how corrosive and corrupt racial identity culture in this country truly is. Racial heritage isn’t about identity in the United States. It is about sociopolitical and cultural agendas.

For what it is worth, McGrath wasn’t the first to mention this “accomplishment.” It had been a “fact” that social justice media acolytes and ideologues in the sports industry drooled over for a week. In the days leading up to the game, it was often repeated that both Freeman and his coaching opponent, Penn State University’s James Franklin, are half black, which apparently was monumental insofar as whoever won the game would then be recognized as the first black head coach to lead his team to the college football national championship game.

These are the silly things people worry about in this country in 2025. Furthermore, such foolish things are inconsistent and often inaccurate. For example, look no further than the rush to crown Freeman or Franklin as the first black coach in a college football championship game. In both instances, those promoting this ignored Freeman’s maternal Asian heritage (and Franklin’s maternal British heritage). In 2025 and the era of racial diversity and inclusion, public relations firms and the media powers that be want to craft a narrative of black success in college football — the heritages and races of both coaches’ mothers be damned. 

However, there is an agenda here, and it is solely focused on celebrating black heritage above everything else. If we are going to live in a society that is obsessed with racial backgrounds, then Freeman’s Asian heritage deserves as much celebration, praise, and recognition as his black heritage. Preferably, it’s time we move on to considering everyone in this country as Americans. However, if enlightened and educated left-wingers insist on continuing their divisive tactics, then they must start doing so equally — not just subliminally prioritizing black people above everyone else. Celebrate Freeman’s Asian background as much as his black background. 

However, tying a person’s skin color to their accomplishments and success seems a little archaic, does it not? It also feels a little doltish at this point. When are we going to fully honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s hallowed words and start judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin? Freeman’s (and Franklin’s) coaching accomplishments and success have nothing to do with 50% of their genetic makeup. It has to do with their character, leadership, intelligence, discipline, and other abilities. 

This is something Freeman recognized while responding to McGrath. 

“I’ve said this before. I don’t ever want to take attention away from the team,” Freeman said. “It is an honor, and I hope all coaches — minorities, black, Asian, white, doesn’t matter — great people continue to get opportunities to lead young men like this.”

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The crowd responded with even louder applause than what they gave to McGrath’s earlier racially pandering comment.

Freeman gets it. He understands that the content of characters deserves applause and recognition. He helped guide Notre Dame to victory and the national championship. Hopefully, his response to McGrath can help guide her, people such as her in the media, and others around the country to embrace more common sense and leave the toxic and divisive left-wing cultural ideologies behind.