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[David Nathanson has moved]

@mekkaokereke Apologies if I'm hijacking. Related point. Lots of white kids assume that they have other options and so they don't get thrown to the football meat grinder.

I don't know first hand how Black kids perceive it.

In the 80's I was a back-bencher on a high-level HS football team. (D1 and NFL graduates.)

Our trainer pushed steroids. He ended up in prison.

My friends who actually played and got pressure to use responded, "F you, I've got a good life ahead of me. I'm not using."