I think it's a disgrace that some would allow extreme voices in this country to erase our proud heritage.
Sometimes you want pain to be acknowledged and not whitewashed - or erased by some exceptionalist point of view.
I am what I am. I'm not going to get plastic surgery. I had this discussion with my younger son. We were at a dermatologist, and this dermatologist suggested to me that I wanted to avoid wrinkles. Those wrinkles show that I have laughed a lot in my life, why should I want to erase that? Why would I erase the traces of my life which I loved?
I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.
To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction on which the game's respectability rested.