Posted on 05/14/2021 4:13:20 PM PDT by mykroar
The NFL is coming under growing pressure from critics who say its landmark concussion settlement treats ex-players differently based on race, making it more difficult for Black retirees to get payouts.
Critics argue the settlement amounts to a form of systemic racism because it uses race-based criteria for neuropsychologists to assess whether Black and white former players have valid dementia-related claims stemming from their professional football careers.
The concept of using different statistical curves based on race, known as “race-norming,” is inherently controversial. It is also the subject of a lawsuit by two ex-players, Kevin Henry, a lineman for eight seasons in the NFL, and Najeh Davenport, a running back for seven seasons, who sued the league last year for race discrimination.
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The NFL is dead, only sports betting is keeping it afloat.
When everything is racism, nothing is racism.
All in all - this one I agree with the black players on.
And should also prove that the NFL CEO is just a another pandering white Democrat.
Also note… Kapernick did NOT kneel or speak out about this.
Always victims, never perpetrators
...I think any veteran who was wounded in combat, or, any family of any veteran who EVER died in combat or was wounded in combat, should get $100,000.00 in reparations from the NFL for demeaning, indeed insulting, such veterans service to our country.
If that were to occur, I might start giving a damn for the NFL.
I don’t believe race is an issue in this concussion pool and study.
I had a good friend who was in the pool, an NFL lineman who died of concussion caused dementia disease. A great guy - great athlete. A white guy. I understand his widow received $100,000 from the fund. His attorney received some but I don’t know how much. Black athletes were getting much more probably because they played for more years - longevity.
It’s racism when most defensive ends are black and most tackles and centers are white blah blah m_____ng blah
And they're complaining?
Isnt this the same type of ‘lower qualification standards’/ racial preference that BLM el al are insisting colleges follow? and big business in hiring practices?
So the solution is, a) integration of the NFL so there are more white players, and, b) pre-hire cognitive tests - no more dumb jocks hired for brawn
Hope they’re sued into oblivion.
Is the NFL still in business?
Money Money Money , show us the Money
Perfect, ironic end to a bread and circus show.
“… giving blacks a statistical advantage to being declared impaired…”
It’s just the opposite. Race norming says blacks start out lower, so impairment is more difficult to prove than declines in whites. If you use IQ as an example, if a white guy goes from 100 to 85, his decline due to brain injury is easier to show than a race-normed black who goes from 90 to 85.
But notice that The Hill uses different benchmarks when discussing black and white players.
Robert Heaton, a professor at the University of California, San Diego's School of Medicine, in an interview with The Hill defended the evaluation method he devised. "The science supports it, as a general practice,” he said.
I guess "follow the science" only applies when it benefits what you want. Maybe the players thought "Race Norming" would be to their benefit, like Affirmative Action, which is the only systemic racism that I know of.
Buh buh buh they spray painted “End Racism” in the end zones last season so I thought racism was over!!!
“Yet critics note that the benchmarks used by the NFL for Black and white players are based on the overall U.S. population, not the universe of ex-NFL players, almost all of whom attended college.”
Athletes attend college. Student attend classes.
This is total bunk. It is completely illogical to think you would deal with brain injuries differently because of race.
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