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NFL Argues Black Players Have Lower ‘Cognitive Skills’ Than Whites, Deserve Less Compensation For Brain Injuries
National File ^ | May 16, 2021 | TOM PAPPERT

Posted on 05/16/2021 5:26:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The NFL has a $1 billion compensation program for players who sustain brain injuries while competing in the league, however, the NFL also has a secret algorithm it uses to determine the level of dispensation awarded to each injured athlete, and argues in court that it is correct to take into consideration what it maintains is the lower average “cognitive skills” of black players compared to other races. While former and current NFL players who suffer from dementia or other brain injuries are entitled to compensation from the NFL if their injuries were sustained while competing in the league, the NFL also argues that it is correct to assume that black players have lower “cognitive skills” on average, and this should be taken into consideration when awarding compensation. However, former Washington running back Ken Jenkins, 61, and his wife Amy Lewis, argue in U.S. District Court that awarding less compensation to black people is an example of inequality.

Detractors say the NFL’s algorithm is an example of “race norming,” and according to Newsweek, New York University Medical Ethicist Art Caplain explains, “Norming by race is not the stance that the NFL ought to take. It continues to look as if it’s trying to exclude people rather than trying to do what’s right, which is to help people that, clinically, have obvious and severe disability.”

Meanwhile, “The NFL’s scoring algorithm asserts that black men have lower cognitive skills to begin with and has impeded the ability for former black players to attain awards from the league’s settlement as they are required to score significantly lower than their white counterparts.” The NFL generally began admitting cognitive deficiencies could be caused from professional football in the early 2010s, but now challenges claims of cognitive injury regularly. In one high profile case,...

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KEYWORDS: football; nfl; racism
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1 posted on 05/16/2021 5:26:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The NFL gets payoffs from the popcorn cartel?


2 posted on 05/16/2021 5:27:27 PM PDT by Paladin2 (.)
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To: Paladin2

Well the truth hurts.


3 posted on 05/16/2021 5:28:25 PM PDT by riverrunner
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No comment.


4 posted on 05/16/2021 5:28:41 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I voted for prosperity, and I got poverty.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Seems like the NFL just stepped into something they will regret. I wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire.


5 posted on 05/16/2021 5:28:50 PM PDT by Richard Axtell ( NO*)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sorry - this ones blatantly racist and comes directly from the white leftist CEO.


6 posted on 05/16/2021 5:29:18 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s hysterical. (Going only by the title...I have little desire to read the article)


7 posted on 05/16/2021 5:29:24 PM PDT by LibertyWoman ("Where there is no law, there is no liberty." Benjamin Rush)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Eli5


8 posted on 05/16/2021 5:29:25 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And cops are the bad guys.

This is not going to go over well when someone explains it to the black players.


9 posted on 05/16/2021 5:30:29 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (. )
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To: Richard Axtell

I totally agree. This will NOT go over well at all.


10 posted on 05/16/2021 5:30:39 PM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Norming by race is not the stance that the NFL ought to take.”

100% agreed! Now, try applying the same principle to college admissions, government jobs, etc.


11 posted on 05/16/2021 5:30:41 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They said that with their outside voice?


12 posted on 05/16/2021 5:32:01 PM PDT by IDFbunny (Fat shaming works.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

All together now, “That’s Rac—t!”


13 posted on 05/16/2021 5:33:08 PM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The smoother the brain the less the compensation. How do you measure that?


14 posted on 05/16/2021 5:33:16 PM PDT by IDFbunny (Fat shaming works.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If that’s true then injuries may have higher percentage of effect, no?


15 posted on 05/16/2021 5:33:27 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I don’t think even the Babylon Bee would dare write that headline.


16 posted on 05/16/2021 5:34:00 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How does the NFL calculate long term knee damage from kneeling?


17 posted on 05/16/2021 5:34:22 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Richard Axtell

Do they realize this is 2021,not 1950’s ?????????


18 posted on 05/16/2021 5:34:45 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sounds like Southetn politicians...in 1920.


19 posted on 05/16/2021 5:36:27 PM PDT by madison10
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Surely this is satire for the Babylon Bee or something like that....


20 posted on 05/16/2021 5:36:30 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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