Episode notes
It has somewhat recently come to light that the NFL created a different scoring scale for Black players versus players of other races when it came to deciding how affected a player was by traumatic brain injuries occurring during their time on in the NFL. If a player was Black, they needed to demonstrate a higher level of impaired cognitive function than players of other races. Strangely, this has made a lot of people angry, confused, and just totally baffled, not least because the NFL freely admitted it when confronted with this fact. They were, to paraphrase, “Yes, we are doing this.”Roberto Aspholm and Cedric Johnson wrote an excellent article about it, connecting the old-school biological racism of NFL to the liberal embrace of "disparity ideology." You should read it--and listen to the interview with Roberto!
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