The NFL’s wealthy white owners recruiting Black players in Africa is horrible optics
International recruitment in places like Africa is one of the NFL’s solutions to a declining game.
Youth participation in the U.S. has steadily diminished since 2009,
amid concerns about the game’s major health risks, chiefly brain damage.
kids from more affluent backgrounds withdraw from tackle football,
and participants are increasingly from poorer communities
The optics of the league’s white billionaire owners mining Africa
for Black bodies in a dangerous sport are, well, not good.
The NFL alleged that Black people have lower cognitive abilities than white people,
so any damage done to their brains would inherently warrant less or no money.
The NFL is racially segregated and is managed much like a plantation.
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