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Used to be known by a name offensive to native americans. the "wall street journal" reported gruden used a racist trope to describe nfl players' union smith saying dumborisi smith has lips the size of michelin tires apologizing for the racist comment he made to the team but the situation comes as a league overwhelmingly dominated by black players but with few black team owners or coaches tries to shake off the track record. paid kaepernick and reed less than $10 million to settle a collusion lawsuit after kaepernick was blackballed by league ownership for the race justice protest. the nfl anno...

Replicated in our employment. fans were appalled if not surprised at the racist practice of assuming black players started out with lower cognitive functioning than their white counterparts. this has made it harder for black players to access the money they're entitled to, but the nfl also pledges to review past claims for signs of racial bias and rectify those mistakes. joining me now is cavita davidson, sports writer for "the athletic." cavita, walk us through exactly what they can have this week, how we learned about it, and what the nfl has done in response. >> i think a lot of your viewer...

Experiencing cognitive impairment were being treated differently when it came to the nfl concussion settlement? >> i really was listening to my wife in a group that she's in online with some of the other wives, and stories were coming out every other night about a player who had been denied and the red tape it took to get a settlement and how they had to be tested and retested. all the while these wives were lifting those families on their backs and doing all the work and raising the kids and bringing in the money and also, in some cases, having to really take care of the men. and so, you know...

This concussion settlement, they actually had to have much more steeper cognitive decline compared to a white player who is presumed to be, according to these standards, more intelligent or have higher cognitive ability, and any small decline would have -- or smaller decline would have led them to get a cash award from this concussion settlement. the lawyers who brought one of the first cases last year said that white players were getting approved at an estimated two to three times more than black players as a consequence of this. and to just think about the consequences of that, there's about...