{"id":82703,"date":"2015-12-21T08:15:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T16:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=82703"},"modified":"2019-06-20T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T17:54:09","slug":"more-white-people-trying-to-tear-down-a-proud-black-man-good-luck-with-that-haters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=82703","title":{"rendered":"More white people trying to tear down a proud black man. Good luck with that haters!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2015\/12\/21\/scientists-question-legacy-of-american-hero-played-by-will-smith-in-concussion\/?hpid=hp_no-name_morning-mix-story-c%3Ahomepage%2Fstory\">Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The release of Will Smith\u2019s upcoming movie, \u201cConcussion,\u201d has been clouded by claims from the scientific community that Smith\u2019s character, the real-life Bennet Omalu, has exaggerated his contributions to the study of a brain disorder affecting professional football players&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But in this case, Hollywood drama isn\u2019t entirely to blame: Omalu has himself suggested that he both discovered CTE and coined its name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said to myself, Bennet, you cannot just publish this as another disease \u2014 it will be drowned,\u201d Omalu said in a lecture in 2013. \u201cYou need to give it a name, and you need to give it a sexy name. You need to give it a name that has a good acronym that people would remember \u2014 even the 3-year-old kid would remember. That was how CTE came about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with the AP, Omalu softened his take, saying, \u201cThe pathology of CTE in a football player had not been known before I described this disease.\u201d But he was responsible for making CTE \u201ca proper noun,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post: The release of Will Smith\u2019s upcoming movie, \u201cConcussion,\u201d has been clouded by claims from the scientific community that Smith\u2019s character, the real-life Bennet Omalu, has exaggerated his contributions to the study of a brain disorder affecting professional football &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=82703\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks","category-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127823,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82703\/revisions\/127823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}