NFL to Stop Judging Brain Damage for Blacks by a Different Standard!

I can’t hardly even believe this story is real.

But yes – the NFL measures brain damage in their players, as part of a program to reduce brain damage from all of the head-hitting the sport involves.

And… they were using a different standard to judge brain damage for blacks.

I mean, it makes sense, right? They are like 20 IQ points below whites, on average.

But they can’t do that anymore because it’s racist.

AP:

The NFL on Wednesday pledged to halt the use of “race-norming” — which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive function — in the $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims and review past scores for any potential race bias.

The practice made it harder for Black retirees to show a deficit and qualify for an award. The standards were created in the 1990s in hopes of offering more appropriate treatment to dementia patients, but critics faulted the way they were used to determine payouts in the NFL concussion case.

Wednesday’s announcement comes after a pair of Black players filed a civil rights lawsuit over the practice, medical experts raised concerns and a group of NFL families last month dropped 50,000 petitions at the federal courthouse in Philadelphia — where the lawsuit had been thrown out by the judge overseeing the settlement.

Senior U.S. District Judge Anita B. Brody later took the unusual step of asking for a report on the issue. Black retirees hope it will include a breakdown of the nearly $800 million in payouts so far by race. They fear the data will never come to light.

“Words are cheap. Let’s see what they do,” said former Washington running back Ken Jenkins, whose wife Amy Lewis led the petition drive on behalf of NFL friends struggling with cognitive problems. Jenkins, an insurance executive, has so far been spared.

According to the NFL, a panel of neuropsychologists formed recently to propose a new testing regime to the court includes two female and three Black doctors.

“The replacement norms will be applied prospectively and retrospectively for those players who otherwise would have qualified for an award but for the application of race-based norms,” the NFL said in a statement issued Wednesday by spokesman Brian McCarthy.

Lead players lawyer Christopher Seeger, who negotiated the 2013 settlement with the NFL, said earlier this year that he had not seen any evidence of racial bias in the administration of the settlement fund. He amended those remarks Wednesday, apologizing for any pain the program has caused.

I have no idea how this is going to work.

It’s just obvious that because blacks start much dumber, if they are measured the same way as whites, it will show that all blacks have had extreme brain damage.

So it kind of defeats the whole purpose of the testing, no?

I mean, I don’t even think that hardcore liberals deny that blacks have much lower IQs, they just say it isn’t their fault.