So this reckoning around race-norming as a concept, as a practice, Ryan, because that is now under the public microscope.

What are experts saying about the future of that practice, even beyond this settlement?

A number of experts that we've sort of communicated with during this have said the practice

has to go.

Ryan Smith has been reporting for ABC and ESPN's outside the lines on whether the NFL's

massive settlement over medical damage from concussions discriminates based on race.

And it has to go because we look at race differently these days.

And it speaks a lot to how we view things in our country.

This for many people is the epitome of institutional racism, systemic racism.

That you needed a process to look at black people differently by race in order to understand them

is what I think you would say a lot of black folks me included really would say why do you need to

look at me differently to understand me and what I'm going through this is what systemic racism

looks like because I walk into a doctor's office,

you should be viewing me no different

from a white person who walked into that very same office.

You don't need anything further to understand what I'm going through

except what I tell you and what your teaching and your learning

tells you about how to analyze me and how to help me.

Former NFL players and their families have long criticized the NFL's program for compensation

around concussion claims.

And now, in the opinion of medical experts, a key attorney, a federal judge, and the NFL

itself, those criticisms centered around race norman, have a point. Today, why minds were changed, how the program

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