Duke University Assistant Professor Ridiculously Claims Football Injuries Are Racist and “Disproportionately Affects Black Men”
Scientific American published an essay claiming that football injuries are now considered racist. This is the question: Who made it? ‘profound’ claim? Meet Tracie Canada, assistant professor at Duke University. She is claiming that “violence” In football “disproportionately affects Black men.”
Canada, an assistant professor in cultural anthropology, published “A Canadian Perspective on Cultural Anthropology”. Piece At the magazine titled “Damar Hamlin’s Collapse Highlights the Violence Black Men Experience in Football,” essentially claiming that the heart attack the Bills’ safety received was less the result of just a random occurrence, and in fact caused deliberately by racism.
The assistant professor goes as far as to say that Hamlin’s heart attack was “horrific for both its regularity and its exceptionality.”
According to Canada “The ordinariness of men running into each other full speed represents a normalized—even rationalized—violence that is routine to this American game.”
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Just reading that alone let’s remember two basic things— this is a game and there are more than just black people who play football. This portrays a scenario in which black football fans deliberately pit black men against one another in involuntary gladiator games. These are not football games that are played by all races.
“While Black men are severely underrepresented in positions of power across football organizations, such as coaching and management, they are overrepresented on the gridiron,” Canada claimed. “Non-white players account for the 70 precent of the NFL; nearly half of all Division I college football players are Black.”
“Further, through a process called racial stacking, coaches racially segregate athletes by playing position. These demographic discrepancies place Black athletes at a higher risk during play.”
Canada continues to claim that the NFL is inherently racist. Canada refers to Billy Hawkins who, a sociolog, claims that all black men in America are still treated equally despite all the progress made in racial equality and equity. “never theoretically far from the plantation fields.”
She didn’t stop there, she also accused football team owners and stakeholders of treating “black bodies for their productive potential and physical prowess.”
Let’s stop here for a moment. What about the white players, who are hurt on the field? Canada would have wept “racism” What if a latino athlete had fallen on the field in place of Hamlin?
She continues “The league encourages and facilitates rigorous training and disciplining so players can execute seemingly impossible corporeal demands, all in the service of entertainment, money-making, and insatiable fandom.”
It’s almost hard to argue with that sentence, since basically what she just described is the very concept of having a job.
This article’s biggest problem is the inability to provide actual numbers showing that Black players were more often injured on the field. Maybe, just maybe she’d have a legitimate case to make. She doesn’t though, and that’s not my opinion, she admits it herself.
Canada claims in the article that she is unaware of any research that compares and shows the. “rate of injury between Black and white football players.” This willful ignorance doesn’t stop her from accusing the NFL of benefiting “both culturally and financially” From Black athletes.
Obviously, people who have an ounce of common sense saw this online and immediately buried Canada’s asinine thesis. Tony Dungy (former coach and NFL Hall of Famer) is one of those critics.
“As a black man and former NFL player I can say this article is absolutely ridiculous,” tweeted Dungy. Ridiculous indeed Dungy, ridiculous indeed.
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