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A UCSF clinical psychologist has taken aim at the National Football League (NFL) for race norming black players diagnosed with dementia, a practice that is depriving them of the monetary awards allocated to former footballers with neurodegenerative disorders.
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JAMA Neurology on Dec. 21, 2020, Katherine Possin, PhD, of the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, says the denial of compensation to Black players, whose cognitive scores had been adjusted to correct for race, adds fuel to the nation s long history of structural racism and discrimination practices. The Human Genome Project has taught us that human beings are 99.9 percent similar at the DNA level, Possin said, and the remaining 0.1 percent does not vary according to socio-politically defined race categories such as Black or White.