damage to some of the players on the pitch. that may be the case too in other high impact sports like american football. my sports like american football. my guesss today are steve thompson and his wife steph. he is a former england rugby international who won the world cup in 2003. he has recently learned that he has early onset dementia. seemingly linked to years of high impact collisions. what happens when the game simply isn t worth it? steve a nd steve and steph thompson, welcome to hardtalk. if i may, i want to begin with that moment when you were diagnosed. an elite former sportsman, rugby player, told that you had early onset dementia. for both of you, i imagine, that was an extraordinary moment. steve, what was your feeling at that time. , , ., time. er, belief, i must admit, at first. time. er, belief, i must admit, at first so time. er, belief, i must admit, at first. so many time. er, belief, i must admit, at first. so many things - time. er, belief, i must ad
can t fix it. can t fix it. it s not necessarily - can t fix it. it s not | necessarily fixable, can t fix it. it s not - necessarily fixable, that s can t fix it. it s not necessarily fixable, that s the problem with dementia. find problem with dementia. and that s when problem with dementia. and that s when the problem with dementia. and that s when the guilt - problem with dementia. fific that s when the guilt comes in, towards steph and the kids, i ve got them involved in this, and that was the hardest part. steph, how did you deal with that, apart from anything else, the fact that your husband, who married at the tail end of an extraordinary sporting career has now learned he has a degenerative brain condition which does not have a cure? i wasjust devastated at which does not have a cure? i was just devastated at first, wasn t i? was just devastated at first, wasn t i? just. didn t believe wasn t i? just. didn t believe it at first. it was like. believe it at first.
news for you, i don t. maybe you do. i have no racial guilt, not a single bit of it, which is why i m willing to tell the truth about black crime and what has to be done about it. what is he saying here, revere reverend? wh i hear this, i hear george wallace in 1968. the real problem is law and order, and the moral issues and the black community. when i hear rudy giuliani, and i hear trump, i hear them playing the play book of kevin phillips when he advised richard nixon. he said all you have to do in american politics is work out who hates who and you have to make the democratic party, the party of black people and he actually said we can win without negro votes, this is what phillips told nixon if we play this law and order game and act as though racism is the problem rather than acknowledging the problem of racism. i don t hear them they re talking about a guilt problem. racism is about policy. when donald trump says he s going to repeal healthcare, he s talking about taking t
moral issues in the black community. when i hear giuliani and i hear trump, i hear them playing the play book of kevin phillip. he said all you have to do in american politics is work out who hates who and make the democrat party the party of black people, and he said we can win without negro votes if we play the law and order game and act like racism is the problem instead of acknowledging the problem of racism. they re talking about a guilt problem. it s about policy. he s talking about taking health care from 20 million americans. we know that 2500 people die from the lack of every 500,000 people who have the lack of access to health care. he says poor black people, but there are 8 million more poor white people than african americans.