Antonio Moore: How Gambling & Sports Will Become a Problem

*Attorney Antonio Moore discusses the coming issues with gambling addiction from fantasy football and sports gambling on his weekly online Tonetalks show.

Moore uses studies to show that African Americans have a higher propensity to fall prey to gambling addiction.

And Moore shows how online betting fantasy football sponsorship of shows by everyone from Joe Budden to Cam’ron & Ma$e, to Shannon Sharpe & Stephen A. Smith are part of the problem.

A 2011 study by Barry et al compared a nationally-representative sample of 32,316 Black and White adults in the US on measures of gambling behavior, problem gambling, mental health, and the co-occurrence of mental disorders and gambling. It found:

Black respondents were more likely than White respondents to have exhibited problem gambling behaviors in the last year. Higher proportion of Black problem gamblers, compared with White problem gamblers, were women (49% versus 32%). Heightened rates of anxiety, mood and substance use and personality disorders among both Black and White problem gamblers. However, Black respondents were more likely than White respondents to have a stronger relationship with subsyndromal gambling, mood disorders and substance use disorders.

#Gamblepocalypse is here and targeting Black America. I’m telling you first. pic.twitter.com/uSdRa81Eud

— Antonio Moore (@tonetalks) January 20, 2024