The NFL's History of Race Norming is Unknown By Many
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Last week I appeared on The Breakfast Club and made some comments about an extremely racist practice that the NFL didn’t end until 2021 … and it only ended because the NFL was sued. Jemele Hill shares her thoughts on a new edition of F*ck It, I'm Bothered.
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This is why I will ALWAYS support Jemele Hill. She not only hits us with the truth, she will gladly educate those of us who have the audacity to try and shame her or call her a liar - while not knowing the whole story or any actual facts!! Protect this woman at ALL COSTS!!!
If you need jemelle to educate you about race norming then I don't know what to tell ya.
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@dw00ds LOL. You're talking about protecting her at all costs. Talking about race norming is not breaking the cycle of the powers that be. It really isn't. Plus. Sometimes she's wrong and doesn't get her info right. The government only kills those of us that are making real impacts that could spark change. Trust me, she ain't one of those people. But keep being educated by UA-cam and a woman who routinely has to walk back her comments and has had every platform she's been on (most recently Spotify) canceled before the contracted length of platform ends. I hope that works out for ya.
@@dw00ds oh. And let me give the most ignorant response yall sistas say routinely on social media.
"I said what I said".
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Never heard about this from NFL perspective. Fighting racism in this country is like playing whac-a-mole…knock one type down and new ones pop up 🤦🏽♂️
No one that covered sports for that long will make statements Jemele Hill made, without the credibility and facts to back it. Thanks you for the brief history lesson on the NFL's racist practices and for shutting down the ignorant parties that tried to portray you a liar
My Queen, I can't get enough of your unapologetic truthfulness. WOW!!!
I love you.. We love you Jemele! Thank you for being! Thank you for your voice!
I heard about it from watching Nightline a few years back. So sad that we continue to be used and not recognized for our blueprint in society.
Jemele thanks for informing those who did not know about this issue. I understood the overall issue but also learned some new things.
I knew about the concussion issue. But I didn't recognize the term , thanks for the info.
I can’t understand for the life of me how anybody on the globe (especially Black people) can listen to Jemele Hill and not think this is one of the most brilliant minded people ever speak on a microphone… I’m at a point if I come across ANY platform where she’s speaking, I’m literally stopping what I’m doing to listen. 💯
Thank you Jemele Hill for once again informing us of the crucial stories that are not in the mainstream media.
Keep Speaking 🗣️ Truth To Power
Very Informative Interview Queen 👸🏾 ❤💯
They are continuing the practice but in a different way. Same as Corporate America and the U. S. Government. I’ve known about this since the mid 70’s when I was young.
I did know about this through Eboni K. Williams. She talked about it on her podcast. Also, your plantation reference is spot on. The NFL is problematic for so many reasons smh.
I was a Baltimore Ravens fan until I found out that the team owner was a supporter of unrepentant RACIST, RACIST ttrump.
I appreciate your research and platform,thank you for the enlightenment! It’s amazing how ESPN fired you for speaking the truth about the racist “Dump” but would not apologize or rehire you when the facts proved you right. We have a very long road to conquer with this issue,and we need unapologetic voices to stand .Thank You ¥
Thank you. Knowledge is TRULY power!
I’m a huge NFL fan and Jemele is right cause while I heard about the new lawsuit I never heard this story in the news or on espn. Can’t believe Malika Andrews didn’t bring it up on her 5 minutes
Good info!!! Please keep us informed!!
Thanks Jermele for you continued and honest #Journalism
Thank you very much, Jamelle, for opening our eyes by highlighting such critical information. We suspect that The Four Letter would have touched on this minimally in a 45-second segment at best.
Thank you, for this information. I saw this briefly in a news clip somewhere, but never saw the settlement. They show us who they are, and we (most of us) still don't get it.
Good reporting! I wasn't aware of this policy, but I'm also not surprised. Keep teaching my Detroit sistah!
This some BS , thank you for this, please keep doing what you do to keep the masses informed
Keep dropping the facts for those who admire and appreciate your courage to speak the truth! The naysayers will eventually catch up and catch on😌
Not to mention the fact that when a black coach does get the job...its usually with a horrible team..then as soon as the team is about to get better and do better ...they get fired and a white coach is hired...look at the chargers situation. Once the Texans start doing better .....watch the coach get fired and someone else comes in. Then they cant get rehired cuz they say ohh look at his record. SMDH happens in the NBA as well!
TELUM SIS,
STAY " WOKE! "
MUCH LOVE
Damn, Damn, Damn, Damn.
I absolutely love the title!! Thank ya for learning me sumthin!!
You younglady, are A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH: "I get those goosebumps every time", every time I hear you "F*CK!N BOTHERED".😂 Thank you for being "UNAPOLOGETIC & BOTHERED!" I f*ck!n ❤️ It!😊
We don't have a race problem...just a problem race!😖
Yo Jemele podcast should be at one million subs. Yo she speaking facts. Jemele you need to team up with Dr. Richey
I always learn from your unapologetic and ruthless pursuit of truth, whether or not I agree with you. Kee on keeping on! ⚽🏈
Thank you Sis!🙏🏾✊🏾
I like how people think that a journalist of Jamele's caliber would be up in here just making up stuff. Honestly, if Jamelle says anything about anything (especially regarding race), I would repeat it and be confident that it's totally true. How tf you gone be working the cash register at Jack in the Box and you're out here calling a whole journalist a "liar"?! 😂😂😂
Mrs. Hill is a brothers best friend. Talk it like you know it lovely.
Why was the NFL hiring doctors to create race based testing? Shouldnt an independent oversight or government agency at least reviewed the process? And where were the player agents and players union?
Deep.....!!
J.
That's one of many reasons why I personally don't watch the NFL.
Cheers!🍸
She took us all to school and learned us sumthin!
Jemele IS A BOSS For REAL
Keeping speaking on all of it Jemele, as always using your platform to bring to the truth, the whole and nothing but...
Thank you Jemele for your voice of truth it will sent us free!!!!
What's the update on Brian Flores' lawsuit? 🤔🤨
PART 4
The NFL’s scandalous practice of refusing payouts to brain-injured black players was rooted in ‘systematic’ racism.
The NFL, American football’s professional league, is to abandon the practice of “race norming” in assessing compensation for former players with brain injuries. It’s the assumption that black players have lower cognitive functioning than white ones, an assumption that made it harder for them to prove they had suffered a deficit through brain trauma and so qualify for a payout. Two former players, Kevin Henry and Najeh Davenport, had sued the NFL, having been denied compensation that they would have received had they been white. 4
The treatment of black people as cognitively less able is straightforward bigotry and draws on a long racist history. The irony, though, is that race norming was introduced as an anti-racist measure and as part of affirmative action programmes. 4
But the idea of assessing individuals differently by virtue of the racial group to which they are deemed to belong is necessarily rooted in racist views of group differences. “When they use a different scale for African Americans versus any other race… that’s literally the definition of systematic racism,” Davenport said. And that’s true in a factory or office as much as on the football field. It’s a practice that only strengthens the idea that races, and racial differences, are fixed entities. The NFL scandal is a reminder that racism cannot be challenged by adopting racist ideas. 4
4 - ‘Race norming’ is bigotry that began with good intentions: Referenced -
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/06/race-norming-good-intentions-bigotry
I knew about the umpteen years ago. When I read the book 40 million dollar slave. Girl keep schooling these people!!!!
I can believe everything she saying that’s why they never wanted the Movie the Will play in the air in the theaters
EXCELLENT VIDEO...I STOPPED WATCHING THAT NFL SHIT EVEN BEFORE KAP...I SAW RACISM IN EVERY COMPONENT OF THE GAME.
Literally Policy. Thats where you go off the rails.
Excellent!!! Well done!!!! I enjoyed this information, I’m going to share it! Be blessed!!!
I know this info sis💪🏾✌🏾 to you for being this out.
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THANK YOU
As a public service i will seek to enlighten those who do not know what this conversation is about. I have 4 entries that should bring anyone who reads them up to speed on this shocking subject.
PART 1
In the recent past, blacks were restricted to certain positions. Other positions, over time dribble in blacks at the position, grudgingly. Everyone knows that blacks were "Race Normed" out of the QB position in the NFL. It was an unwritten rule. Again, black QB were dribble in as backups and were able to show it was possible a black was "smart" enough to handle the complex position of QB. The racism in the NFL was a finely honed tool teams used to keep black players out.
The reason black grew in numbers was money. A black player at a show time position, RB, WR, and TE was exciting and a crowd pleasing. So, team relented and brought aboard, reluctantly, black players, and they did not disappoint. In my opinion, it was generally Jim Brown, the first black superman RB that flipped teams, all teams into search mode needed to get one of them and it spawn the search for black men who could excel. Race norming in the NFL was not a scientific process, and they were able to afford industrial psychologist who drew up the ways and means, and actually created the test, that were the entrance test rookies were given to be graded and showed to a team what you could expect from this player intelligence wise. It was not a termination test. Film showed they could play the game. The most famous player today that reflect that is Cam Newton. On film he was a superman QB. Intellectually, he was spoon fed plays and allowed to run, in which he was very talented, to produce wins for his team. In his later years, after being traded to the Patriots, it was apparent Cam was no Brainiac. The Patriots offensive system is among the most complex in the NFL. Volumes of documented offenses had to re-shelved so only few the fitted into Newton's wheelhouse were given to him, needless to say the Patriots were not the amen team, and they did not win.
What is Race Norming?
Race-norming, more formally called within-group score conversion and score adjustment strategy, is the practice of adjusting test scores to account for the race or ethnicity of the test-taker. Reference: Wikipedia
On June 2, 2021, the National Football League (NFL) announced it would discontinue the use of race norming-the practice of assuming a lower baseline of cognitive abilities in Black players-in legal settlements for concussion-related injuries. 1
Bottom line: the race norming practice limited Black players’ access to the compensation they were rightfully owed.1
In 2013, the NFL settled for $765 million after more than 4,500 retired players brought concussion-related lawsuits against the league. In theory, approximately 18,000 former players were eligible to receive the settlement, which is meant to cover compensation, medical exams, further research, and legal fees for concussion-related neurological diseases such as dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). 1
While this settlement seemed like a victory to some, Black players quickly found out that it would be harder to access these funds because the NFL required that cognitive tests used be adjusted for race. With this in mind, Henry and Davenport quietly filed a lawsuit against the NFL in the fall of 2020. 1
“Black former players are automatically assumed (through a statistical manipulation called ‘race-norming’) to have started with worse cognitive functioning than White former players. As a result, if a Black former player and a White former player receive the exact same raw scores on a battery of tests designed to measure their current cognitive functioning, the Black player is presumed to have suffered less impairment, and he is therefore less likely to qualify for compensation,” their lawsuit contended. 1
The June announcement was, rightly, met with shock that the practice had even been in use. But for those of us who are attuned to the actions and strategies of the most profitable and popular professional sport league in the United States, the news wasn’t much of a surprise. It is just the latest example on the laundry list of the NFL’s anti-Black, racist and discriminatory practices over the past decades. 1
Scientific American's conclusion, “race norming is an inherently anti-Black form of scientific racism that is evidence of slavery’s afterlife." 1
1 - The NFL’s Racist ‘Race Norming’ Is an Afterlife of Slavery
Referenced from www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-nfls-racist-race-norming-is-an-afterlife-of-slavery/
There's this theory I have about Russell Wilson that of course nobody believes and I might be wrong but Concussions have effected is playing and nobody is talking about it. He's gone through alot of undiagnosed Concussions it is catching up to his playing as of now
thank you Sista
That for the facts Sis. ✊🏾
Nothing new NFL been racist more than Nascar Lol
I knew Jemele, sorry there's so few of us.
Preach jemele
People, this is how you make A video about A serious subject, you do it with verifiable receipts up front, not none of that I said it so you should believe me crap. (WELL DONE J.H.)
Preach that shit!!!
You are outstanding!
They know but just didn't or never will care because it don't effect them
Keep sharing the truth👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿💐💐💐💐💐 thank you
Kinda soft-pedalling the fact that the NFL is operating under a NEGOTIATED settlement the terms of which can and have changed. Our ancestors that endured slavery got no such consideration, so you're also minimizing their sacrifice. Respect our ancestors; no, not everything is 'just-like-slavery'.
Wow!
Wait.....I have more muscle mass.....Where the hell is it. Small edit... I quit watching NFL football a long time ago, College football is 20 times better to watch.
Malcom X Warned Us
So you're saying systemic racism exists in the NFL?
Jemele is the "Truth" period.
Great Work
All Facts!!!! Keep us informed!!!
Speaking truth.
I knew about this and she's right, no one cared. Swept it right under the rug like it wasn't a thing.
Players must make the money and use it in a positive way to help black people that want something out of life.and leave all the drama alone
Thank you!
Great work Jemele!!!
It also didn't get half the press Kyrie Irving did, thank you for educating the masses Ms. Hill.
Bob Law
Talk that Sh*t!!!! 💡💡💯
Minister Farakhan told us
J.H. got receipts! 😤
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Good one right here for sure.
Jemele sleeps, breathes, and dreams racism.
Ahhhh the matrix... Way to knock it out of the park Jemele. Truth hurts... NFL bigotry is well documented no matter who is in the Halftime show in the Superbowl. Team Hill✊🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Heavy.
"@#WOW...Excellent Video Extremely Informative, Insightful as well as Enlightening"
The Anti Blackness Is Real
Thank you for the info 💯
His & Her Deuce. Even if it is a one time thing for charity or some ish.
Great video on a topic unknown to me. A little too much Trump, though.
Not one lie told
clutch
You are so Beautiful Jamele. Keep up the good work
Thanks for ‘splaining. Cuz most folks didn’t know.
Judge Joe Brown
Another reason I don’t give the nfl my money or time watching
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