Couple things,
It's not about character.
1. Babs was fired because he lost the dressing room. He was not fired for misconduct, his team lost 6 in a row, all this he's a terrible person shit came out post-termination.
2.
$1:
“I said to Kwame, I don’t see you as black, I don’t see Tara as a woman. And then I realized, ‘There’s your white male privilege. You know what, Ron? You don’t have to see that because you don’t need to see that.'”
This is what the MLK quote was about.