Battle Royal: How Society Encourages Brain Trauma, Underdevelopment, Self-Hatred, and Reinforces Stereotypes on Black Americans

The purpose of this book is to determine how society encourages black-on-black violence for enormous wealth, largely to entertain the white audience in the stands and media. The combat embedded in the National Football League (NFL) as an example has been the source of significant brain damage from concussions. For multimillion dollar salaries these athletes for a short career on average lasting 3.3 years, according to the NFL Players Association. In exchange, they make enormous sacrifices to their neural-muscular-skeletal systems and longevity. In too many cases, intellectual development is put on hold for perceived riches drawn from this marginal career fin professional football. Most of these player incur numerous concussions from high school and college years when their brains are more vulnerable. Unfortunately, many fail to make the rosters of the NFL for the opportunity to cash-in on their athletic abilities. Those that make it to the NFL are left with further degrees of brain damage and many have become addicted to prescription painkillers or illegal purchases on the street by dealers. The NFL encourages its starters to use painkillers to win games as highlighted. This effort to make their franchises wealthier incurs a disproportionate use of African-American athletes, 70 percent of the players. These athletes are placed in positions to incur the brunt of the concussions in the game and during practice. Coaches (today’s overseers) expect them to take and met-out the most punishment that means the most trauma for those players. More painkillers in and after their playing days is required. In addition, as the book details, has devastating effects on family relations and their well-being. Players, in turn, live a life shorten on average by two decades in comparison to most Americans. They also carry, on average, a much higher medical and personal cost at a younger age.The book delves into media stereotypes that encourage black males to follow this path of personal and familiar destruction for the entertainment of an audience subscribing to white racism and black dehumanization. It describes how this entertainment is rooted in slavery and spills-over in intra-racial crime beyond the arena. The briefly wealthy players are bankrupt in five years on average after retirement. In effect, it appears that this “Battle Royal” which sacrifices their bodies and minds merely to reinforce white socioeconomic dominance. But, there is hope detailed by researchers and scholars who raise the conscious-truth regarding the price these players are paying and identifies more beneficial paths to articulate a more holistic development and avenue for greatness. One which develops their mental facilities and acknowledges their true contributions to the greatness of our society.