Mike McDaniel, who is the new head coach of the Miami Dolphins, fielded a “weird” question from a reporter during a press conference on Thursday asking him about his racial identity growing up and stated that he finds it strange “identifying as something.”

McDaniel’s father is black and his mother is white. He asserted that it’s been “weird” how fixated people have become about his racial identity. His hiring comes as the National Football League (NFL) finds itself under fire for a purported lack of minority head coaches.

“It’s been very odd, to tell you the truth, this idea of identifying as something,” McDaniel commented. “I think people identify me as something, but I identity as a human being, and my dad’s black. So whatever you want to call it, I know there’s a lot of people with a shared experience.”