In an effort to kiss the collective asses of Black Lives Matter, the NFL has gone completely woke, ending racism in the end-zones, allowing players to commemorate dead black criminals on their helmets, and playing the “black national anthem” before games. It would seem however that this wokeness is just a front because the league considers black players to be less intelligent than white players.
Bleeding Green Nation reports:
Eight years ago, the NFL settled on a payout system for former players impacted by concussions. Now the settlement is coming under heavy scrutiny as the NFL’s process of determining player damages is being exposed as racist.
In February, former Steelers Najeh Davenport and Kevin Henry sued the NFL on account of the league using “race-norming” to determine whether or not they can get paid by the settlement. The NFL has been testing players to determine cognitive decline caused by time in the NFL. If players exhibit enough deviation from the test’s assumed baseline, the player is eligible for the settlement. “Race-norming” is used to set a baseline lower for Black players based on racist assumptions on average Black intelligence, as the suit filed by Davenport and Henry states. Though the line is set lower, Black players must exhibit the same sized drop-off in neurocognitive function. Meaning, Black athletes, in a vacuum, have to be substantially more mentally injured than their white counterparts to collect a payout.
Najeh Davenport suffered ten concussions in the NFL. When he joined the lawsuit against the NFL, he initially won his claim. Then the NFL appealed the ruling and had Davenport’s test recalibrated or “race-normed.” With the test results curved, Davenport lost out on the settlement.
In the least shocking news of all time, the NFL’s wokeness ends when it comes to making payouts. They’ll do some Kaepernick-friendly PR crap to placate the BLM crowd, but draw a very distinct financial line. Ironically, or stupidly, allowing all of this disrespect to our country has hurt the league in terms of ratings, which has hit them square in the wallet.
Also ironically, or hilariously, “race-norming” was actually intended to give black people an advantage over whites in an affirmative action kind of way as IResearch.net reports:
Race norming is the practice of converting individual test scores to percentile or standard scores within one’s racial group. In the process of race norming, an individual’s percentile score is not calculated in reference to all persons who took the test; instead, an individual’s percentile score is determined only in reference to others in the same racial group. After norming scores by percentile in separate racial groups, the lists are combined to make selection decisions. By norming within racial groups, the same raw score for Whites and Blacks can be converted to different percentile scores based on the distribution of scores for each racial group.
For example, suppose that a White candidate and a Black candidate each earn a raw score of 74 points on a test. If the White candidate’s test score is converted to a percentile only in reference to other White candidates and the Black candidate’s test score is converted to a percentile only in reference to other Black candidates, then the percentile scores earned by the two candidates may not be equal even though they attained the same raw test score. Perhaps the 74-point raw score for the White candidate may be at the 60th percentile of the White distribution of scores, whereas the 74-point score for the Black candidate may be at the 65th percentile of the Black distribution of scores. When the White and Black percentile scores are combined into a common list and selection decisions are made, the candidates who scored the same 74 raw points on the test might be treated very differently. For example, if the organization decides to hire only persons who scored at the 65th percentile and above, then the Black candidate would be selected and the White candidate would not. In another circumstance, the organization could decide to hire persons with the highest percentile first, which would mean that the Black candidate would be selected prior to the White candidate.
Sorry, that’s a lot to read and one bad mutha wall-of-text, but basically “race-norming” is designed to give black people an unfair advantage to make up for 400 years of oppression or some shit like that.
The NFL is trying to say “black lives matter” by allowing players to keel during the National Anthem but when it comes to paying out for concussions, they add “but those lives are a little dumber.” They’re trying to get woke without going broke.
