By A.J. Rice
Scientific American just abandoned science and has set out to wreck America.
What else should we make of an article that ghoulishly takes the shocking – and freak – injury to Buffalo’s Damar Hamlin and uses it to argue that football injuries are racist?
I’m not making that up. Scientific American actually published an article by someone unironically called Tracie Canada with this headline: “Damar Hamlin’s Collapse Highlights the Violence Black Men Experience in Football.”
It is apparently news to everyone at that once-august publication that everyone who plays football experiences violence. It’s a violent sport in which the rules stipulate that you must bring the man carrying the ball to the ground, or get him out of bounds, to stop him. Football players wear literal armor – helmets, plated pads that cover their shoulders and ribs, and pads down their legs to help prevent them from breaking from the sheer force of the hits and tackles that are inherent parts of the pro football game.
Black men – and white men, Hispanic men, and every other race of men who play the sport – experience violence. Maybe Scientific American and its writers and editors should actually take in a game now and then. If they did, they would see this with their own eyes.
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