Concussions and Hand-Guns

I definitely think this is an interesting topic to think about because many pro football players do own a gun and do at least have one concussion under their belt. I myself have had two concussions during my football days in high school. The issue that arises is that medical professionals don’t tell players when they are concussed, so they keep playing and get hurt worse. I thought it was interesting to see the CTE scan because it shows what happens after a hard hitting hit. The first stage is unnoticeable then it gets very progressive and by the end the damage has already been done.

            When you watch football, there is definitely things that stand out. One there is a lot of black football players compared to whites. Two is that a lot of players have guns because they are so famous they want to feel safe. This is completely understandable but it’s crazy to think that kids off the street carry hand-guns just because they want to be part of a gang or something. Looking at the George Zimmerman case, we see that a young black student gets pulled over and he was thought to have had a gun and apparently the police officer thought he was pulling a gun, so he shot him. Only to find out he was really just reaching for his I.D. When I think about this it is completely stupid because people just a book by it’s cover and that’s just not right.

            Looking at the Chris Rock/Tiger Woods video, we saw that people in Harlem didn’t know who Tiger Woods was or they didn’t like golf. There wasn’t really any in between. We saw that Chris Rock tried to find golf clubs but he wasn’t successful until he found some at the Salvation Army. What we get from this is that people like sports that are fun and entertaining like professional football because we can see hard hits and spectacular plays. I thought it was interesting to look at the black  birders because it sounded to me that they were rules for black people to follow in order to be considered a normal person in society. It says like “Don’t wear a hoodie”, this is normally something everyone does but people get the wrong idea when a black man does it, everyone feels like it a threat. I just thought it was something interesting to look at and to me it did have some very good points. We definitely see a lot of racial targeting happen because people honestly judge at first glance or someone already have a preconceived notion. I definitely think this has been a issue for the longest time now and we need to do something about it but I think nothing gets fixed due to people not giving others the benefit of the dought. When we look at situations that happen, people tend to just shrug it off, but what happens when this all happens to a white dude, then everyone freaks out. NOT COOL!