Disparity In Football

The social awareness aspect of this project is one that I didn’t get to cover as much as I would’ve liked, because it’s not the primary focus of my question. My question specifically asks about the effect of the concussion crisis on the sport of football. I did mention that the majority (two-thirds) of NFL players are African-American, and I was able to show an image in my presentation to try and illustrate that racial disparity. But it wasn’t enough, mostly because I was strapped for time, and had to pick what I could focus on. The racial aspect wasn’t of immediate importance to the question, but it’s a huge part nonetheless.
My research helped to cement the idea that football is a brutal and violent game with very real repercussions concerning …show more content…
The pipeline for football players is not going to dry up any time soon, or at least not until this country no longer has any sort of lower class. And it’s all because African-American youth, the people most likely to play football, are the ones least likely to be told its …show more content…
I was only able to say that the sport isn’t going away any time soon, a disappointingly noncommittal and nebulous answer considering volume of work and time I had committed to research. The reason I couldn’t say the sport was going the way of the dinosaurs was because of this small but inescapable point. Just like it does to everything else, race complicates football. More than that, racial disparity feeds football’s talent pipeline. It’s a wildly messed-up system that’s too complex to see a solution or end to.
The problem is that I have absolutely no clue in terms of what to do. As a high schooler, I don’t have the accreditation, time, or money to travel around the country to disadvantaged high schools, explaining to kids dangers of their favorite sport. It’s just not feasible. So I’m left here, very fully understanding that there’s a very serious problem – I just have absolutely no idea what to do about