You can't push a rope. Complaining about it at the pro levels is too little, too late. I don't see any POC high on performance lists not getting a crack at sponsored training groups in spite of their clear potential or proven ability, if they are interested in being part of that type of situation. Marielle Hall is in perhaps the best group situation that exists, Raevyn Rogers is in the other group that could claim the same, Weini Kelati took a bid from Dark Sky over one from NAZ, Aisha Praught-Leer is a charter member of Team Boss, Sally Kipyego has been with OTC Elite forever, Aliphine Tuliamuk was with NAZ for over two years before her OT win. I don't go on Facebook because I'm not a Boomer, are they mentioning specific names of POC distance athletes who are getting perpetually overlooked by these sponsored groups and white male athletes with lesser credentials are added, instead? I'm not seeing that happening but I realize I could have blind spots so I'm genuinely curious if there are overlooked POC athletes they've been championing in their discussion.
To me, the root of the issue in POC athletic development in distance running lies at the college level and even moreso before that. It's high school coaches letting POC remain slow quarter milers because their POC friends on the team are faster quarter milers rather than challenging them positively to move up to the 800m or 1600m. It's college coaches not recruiting POC to their distance squads for any number of "difficult" reasons. Blaming the landscape on the pro level is putting the cart before the horse.
As someone has already pointed out, NAZ has not avoided trying to add and develop POC athletically. Maybe you want to blame Ben Rosario for being white and male, but he's set the table for people to have success in his system and he's recruited outside the obvious, usual channels. Ben's system, whether it's his coaching style or the group's requirement for SM engagement, isn't for everyone. As many white males have flushed out of NAZ as POC and it's not due to bigotry. I'm left of center and often progressive in my views, and the views of AW often resonate as stridently feminist liberal, a single-issue dominated view that suffers from real world blind spots. I wonder, when she was coaching in college was she an activist who recruited POC athletes over white athletes for her team?