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Damar Hamlin’s Collapse Highlights the Violence Black Men Experience in Football
Scientific American ^ | January 6th, 2023 | Tracie Canada

Posted on 01/07/2023 6:15:17 PM PST by shadowlands1960

The “terrifyingly ordinary” nature of football’s violence disproportionately affects Black men

Millions of people watched as Damar Hamlin, a 24-year-old player in the National Football League (NFL), executed a seemingly routine tackle during a highly anticipated Monday Night Football game. Immediately after, Hamlin rose to his feet and then collapsed. Players from his team, the Buffalo Bills, and the opposing team, the Cincinnati Bengals, created a tight huddle around him on the field as medical personnel tried to revive him. We learned the next day that Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest; his heart had suddenly stopped working.

This scene was horrific for both its regularity and its exceptionality. Matt Gutman of ABC tweeted as much: “The scariest part of this is that the hit was in fact not scary. It looked terrifyingly ordinary.” The ordinariness of men running into each other at full speed represents a normalized—even rationalized—violence that is routine to this American game.

This ordinary violence has always riddled the sport and it affects all players. But Black players are disproportionately affected. While Black men are severely underrepresented in positions of power across football organizations, such as coaching and management, they are overrepresented on the gridiron. Non-white players account for 70 percent of the NFL; nearly half of all Division I college football players are Black. Further, through a process called racial stacking, coaches racially segregate athletes by playing position. These demographic discrepancies place Black athletes at a higher risk during play.

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Oppressed....

1 posted on 01/07/2023 6:15:17 PM PST by shadowlands1960
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To: shadowlands1960

Does that mean football is racist?


2 posted on 01/07/2023 6:17:42 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: shadowlands1960

Do Black men dish out any violence during a football game?? Asking for a friend.....


3 posted on 01/07/2023 6:19:40 PM PST by rbg81
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To: Mark17

Football is racist... yes.


4 posted on 01/07/2023 6:19:46 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: shadowlands1960

Perhaps all black men should be banned from football because it is too rough? Because they are exploited by being forced to accept millions for their athleticism? Really? The mag is called Scientific American, but it is neither Scientific, nor American.


5 posted on 01/07/2023 6:20:04 PM PST by silent majority rising
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To: shadowlands1960

Overkill, SA. Total overkill. Proving you aren’t scientific, you’re political, just like the CDC.


6 posted on 01/07/2023 6:21:08 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: shadowlands1960
Time to "follow the drinking gourd" to freedom (and one tenth the salary) in the Canadian Football League.
7 posted on 01/07/2023 6:21:12 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Soon the January 6 protesters will be held (without trial or bail) longer than Jefferson Davis was.)
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To: rbg81

Gentle giants.. all of them... didn’t you see Shawshank Redemption?


8 posted on 01/07/2023 6:21:51 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: shadowlands1960

Wow you really have to be an idiot, racist, fraud or all of the above, to write this article.

Blacks have most of the positions and money in football so they are victims. Incredible.


9 posted on 01/07/2023 6:22:33 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: shadowlands1960

oops.. meant to say ‘The Green Mile...’ getting my prison movies mixed up...


10 posted on 01/07/2023 6:23:22 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: shadowlands1960

Or The Green Mile.


11 posted on 01/07/2023 6:23:25 PM PST by rbg81
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To: shadowlands1960

In my youth white kids used to play football in my neighborhood.

All survived without substantial injury I am happy to say.


12 posted on 01/07/2023 6:24:44 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: shadowlands1960

If the game is too violent, don’t play it.


13 posted on 01/07/2023 6:25:47 PM PST by meyer (FBI = KGB for the DNC; IRS = Gestapo)
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To: Brian Griffin

We played tackle football without helmets or pads... kind of crazy looking back at it. We were free range where I lived...


14 posted on 01/07/2023 6:25:51 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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To: shadowlands1960

Would be amusing if full-contact football evolved into touch football. Imagine if they started handing out the equivalent of soccer red cards for deliberate hits.


15 posted on 01/07/2023 6:26:17 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: shadowlands1960

Football or gang warfare?


16 posted on 01/07/2023 6:27:16 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: shadowlands1960

I’ve never heard of racial stacking in any sport. Coaches recruit and play players at their best possible position.


17 posted on 01/07/2023 6:27:16 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: shadowlands1960

In my opinion people having a build substantially different than mine should not be allowed to play in the NFL (or make the big money (I’d rather have)).


18 posted on 01/07/2023 6:28:26 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Zhang Fei
Would be amusing if full-contact football evolved into touch football.

We are already there. Tom Brady. Not 100%. But we are on our way.

19 posted on 01/07/2023 6:28:27 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Who knows if football will even survive in this environment? Masculinity itself is ‘toxic.’


20 posted on 01/07/2023 6:30:51 PM PST by shadowlands1960 (We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance. RUSH LIMBAUGH)
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