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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This really is racist and outrageous (if true). We are seeing the results of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”. The word racist has become meaningless.
I had to come back and check after commenting earlier. Thus HAS to be fake.
“Why is this an issue? There’s what, 9 non black players in the NFL?”
Yea, but all of them are Road Scholers.
The spirit of Jimmy The Greek lives!
There are plenty of smart black folk; mostly the God-fearing ones. Athletics is not, imo, a gold mine for great intellect; regardless of race.
But blacks didn’t help their race many years ago by killing some of their smarter folk in Tinbuktu, and destroying much of their library.
This isn’t real.
So everyone who gets a life insurance policy, using similar stats COULD charge more for a block person than others?
Not block, black !
The first thing I did was look at the byline!
This is similar to how we got the subprime loan crisis:
If you don’t give a loan to a black person who doesn’t qualify for the loan, you are a racist.
If you do give a loan to a black person who doesn’t qualify for the loan, you are a predatory lender.
See how that works?
Every one knows that all jocks, regardless of race/ethnicity have lower cognitive skills. (sarcasm)
How very Woke of them./sarc
Should be based off of baseline decline.
My late father did similar tests, and that is how they judged him
“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.”
The NFL wonders out loud if they had ever been hurt at all?
Smells like bovine excrement.
I think you gotta go on a case by case basis. Make all players take a IQ test upon entering the league. Develop a settlement structure for brain damage based on IQ…. Not race
Heavens to Betsy. This cannot be real. This isn’t something one argues.
On the other hand, if it’s true, who cares? First they pissed off the white people, now they pissed off the black people. Get in line behind me to complain.
Figures. The NFL is publicly woke, but privately racist, where it’s to their financial interest.
WTF?
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