Drew: What do you say to parents if they ask you, should my kids be playing t-ball age football?
Dr. Bennet Omalu:
There is no justifiable reason whatsoever, a child in America today should be playing football.
There is no justifiable reason whatsoever, a child in America today should be playing football.
In 1957, The American Academy of Pediatrics stated that football does not have any place in the development of a child. It is not smart to play football.
Maya Angelou in her book, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, stated that when she was in high school, she noticed that, when you go to the white schools, they have the best science labs. You go to the black schools, they have the best football fields. At her graduation, the commencement speaker said that Black people are the best football players.
These are systematic alternative words that have been sold to us. No child today, under the age of 18, should play high-impact, high-contact, collision sports (American football, ice hockey, mixed-martial arts, boxing, wrestling and rugby). And in soccer, there is no reason whatsoever, for a child under the age of 18, to have the ball.
Football studies have shown that you can suffer permanent brain damage after only 1 season of football.
Violent blows to your head. The human brain is 60-80% water.
It doesn't have any capacity to heal itself.
It doesn't have any capacity to heal itself.
Playing football damages the brain and stops you from being that great black beautiful person the Lord God Almighty made you to be.
Rather than playing football, play basketball or pick up a book and read. Become the best that you can be.
How many football players live in a million dollar home at the age of 60? But how many lawyers or doctors live in a million dollar home at the age of 60?
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