[color=red]pictured: Joey Harrington[/color]Many NFL teams keep pretty much the same racial (im)balance on their roster from season to season. Not so with the Falcons. During 2003, the last year Dan Reeves was the head coach, Atlanta had 10 white starters and 23 whites on the roster. That began changing rapidly during the Jim Mora Jr. era and is continuing under new head coach Bobby Petrino, as the Falcons begin ’07 with just 4 white starters and a mere 11 white players on the 53 man roster.The number of white starters would be only 3 if Caste System god Michael Vick hadn’t screwed up so badly that even the NFL and the corporate media couldn’t save him this time around. Oh well, there’s still JaMarcus and Vince to hype as the next saviors as black quarterbacks continue to be distinguished by their deficiencies and susceptibility to injury. Joey Harrington fared poorly on bad Lions teams after being the third overall pick of the 2002 draft and quickly became despised by drunk white fans everywhere. Harrington moved on to a bad Miami team last year and now is the starter on a bad Falcons squad whose receivers epitomize what seems to be the main qualification to be a starting WR in the NFL — bad hands. Oh and they run bad routes, have poor concentration and alligator arms. But they can run short distances in a straight line quickly, which is enough to make the likes of Michael Jenkins and Roddy White first round draft picks. The former number two quarterback, Matt Schaub, was traded to Houston in the offseason. Schaub was clearly a more talented QB than Vick, but one of the rules of the Caste System is to not have gifted backups during one of those experiments when a black QB is being given half a decade or more to succeed. (See for example: Stewart, Kordell.) So Chris Redman and Casey Bramlet out of Wyoming are backing up Harrington at the only position on the Falcons other than kicker that isn’t mostly or completely coal black.Center Todd McClure and RT Todd Weiner start on the offensive line. Tyson Clabo is the only other white o-lineman. All the tight ends and wide receivers are black.On defense, Keith Brooking, playing at middle linebacker this year, is the last man standing from the 2002 Atlanta defense that featured five white starters. Brooking is in his tenth season after being a first round draft pick in 1998 out of Georgia Tech.Backup end Josh Mallard is the only other white defensive player on the Falcons.NUMBER OF WHITE STARTERS: 4APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF WHITE PLAYERS ON 53 MAN ROSTER: 11GRADE: F-