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So, the NFL has a $1 Billion pot it uses to pay out ex-players who can show they've suffered effects of CTE and concussion-induced dementia along with other brain decline diagnoses.
Turns out tho, in the NFL's formula for payouts, they assume black athletes are dumber to begin with. And so they need to be more mentally declined than whites to get a settlement.
But hey, they let them play the black national anthem before a game last year so the NFL can't be racist right? And if anything they're anti-white woke trash that's getting canceled by fans, and an ex-president and VP, who want them to stand for the flag above all else.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/may/14/nfl-race-norming-concussion-settlement
Under the settlement, however, the NFL has insisted on using a scoring algorithm on the dementia testing that assumes Black men start with lower cognitive skills. They must therefore score much lower than whites to show enough mental decline to win an award. The practice, which went unnoticed until 2018, has made it harder for Black former players to get awards.
“Because every Black retired NFL player has to perform lower on the test to qualify for an award than every white player. And that’s essentially systematic racism in determining these payouts,” said Katherine Possin, a neurology professor at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center.
In other major settlements, including those tied to the the September 11 terrorist attacks and the Boston Marathon bombing, all claimants were treated the same.
Turns out tho, in the NFL's formula for payouts, they assume black athletes are dumber to begin with. And so they need to be more mentally declined than whites to get a settlement.
But hey, they let them play the black national anthem before a game last year so the NFL can't be racist right? And if anything they're anti-white woke trash that's getting canceled by fans, and an ex-president and VP, who want them to stand for the flag above all else.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/may/14/nfl-race-norming-concussion-settlement
Under the settlement, however, the NFL has insisted on using a scoring algorithm on the dementia testing that assumes Black men start with lower cognitive skills. They must therefore score much lower than whites to show enough mental decline to win an award. The practice, which went unnoticed until 2018, has made it harder for Black former players to get awards.
“Because every Black retired NFL player has to perform lower on the test to qualify for an award than every white player. And that’s essentially systematic racism in determining these payouts,” said Katherine Possin, a neurology professor at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center.
In other major settlements, including those tied to the the September 11 terrorist attacks and the Boston Marathon bombing, all claimants were treated the same.
