No, the NFL isn’t racist because black men get tackled more often in the NFL

Published January 10, 2023 1:29pm ET



There are some people who are just so desperate to see racism in everything they will simply make it up where it does not exist. Such is the case of an “article” published by Scientific American last week claiming that “football’s violence disproportionately affects Black men.” In a sport that is both violent and played predominantly by black men, the logical response to this preposterous claim is, “Ya think?”

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