The only reason the NFL is stopping this is that they were caught.
If no one would have mentioned it, they would have kept on doing it.
Hard to “end racism” when you are actively involved in it.
The NFL on Wednesday pledged to halt the use of “race-norming” — which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive functioning — in the $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims and review past scores for any potential race bias.
The practice had made it harder for Black players to show a deficit and qualify for an award. The standards were designed in medicine in the 1990s in hopes of offering more appropriate treatment to dementia patients, but critics faulted the way it was used to assess legal damages in the NFL case.
BSO was one of the first and only outlets to report on this.
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