NFL players know the injury risks ‘they’re buying into’

Professional football players “know what they’re buying into” when they play the sport and risk concussions and brain damage, President Barack Obama said in a lengthy profile in the current issue of the New Yorker magazine.

Writer David Remnick said in the profile of Obama that he asked the president “if he didn’t feel at all ambivalent about following” professional football.

He also argues that conservatives’ preference for policies being decided by state governments can’t be separated from the intertwined history of states’ rights and slavery in the years leading to the Civil War and racial prejudice since then.

But Obama said “that philosophy is wrapped up in the history of states’ rights in the context of the civil-rights movement and the Civil War and (South Carolina Sen.

Bur on the other hand, he said conservatives should see that “if I am concerned about leaving it up to states to expand Medicaid that it may not simply be because I am this power-hungry guy in Washington who wants to crush states’ rights but, rather, because we are one country and I think it is going to be important for the entire country to make sure that poor folks in Mississippi and not just Massachusetts are healthy.”