NFL Admits To Using Race-Skewed Criteria in CTE Settlements
The NFL has provided one more reason to teach Critical Race Theory
While numerous states are passing laws banning the teaching of Critical Race Theory, American society continues to prove the urgent need for such instruction.
Case in point is the National Football League, which has just promised to abandon the practice of "race-norming" when evaluating whether former players qualify for brain-injury settlements.
Using this race-norming criteria, Black players were assumed to have lesser cognitive skills than White players, and therefore had a greater legal burden of proof while attempting to prove their case for receiving benefits.
Former players Keith Henry (second photo) and Najeh Davenport ( third photo) have been engaged in a lawsuit against the NFL to end the practice, claiming that they had been denied benefits because the tests conducted under NFL parameters meant that they had show a greater amount of cognitive loss than their White counterparts to qualify for benefits.
The NFL says it will no longer use the race-norming criteria and will review previous cases and make necessary adjustments.
This country continues to argue that it is not fundamentally racist, that prejudice is not a bedrock ingredient of our society.
It is much more honest to question whether there would even be a United States of America without racial discrimination.
Kevin Henry told ABC News:
"“I just want to be looked at the same way as a white guy. We bust chops together, bro. We went out together and we played hard together. You know what I mean? It wasn't a white or Black thing. We lost together. We won together.”
Najeh Davenport was more blunt in his assessment:
“What the NFL is doing to us right now … when they use a different scale for African-Americans versus any other race? That's literally the definition of systematic racism.”
The systematic racism that America says doesn't exist continues to raise its ugly head every day.
One wonder who is truly brain-damaged - the players who suffered traumatic injuries playing the game they loved, or the country they live in which continues to daily negate their humanity and in the same breath, assure them that racism is limited to isolated incidents.