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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to United States | News & Politics@midwest.socialEnglish · 1 month ago

Black Babies Are Still Dying—And America Let It Happen

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Black Babies Are Still Dying—And America Let It Happen

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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to United States | News & Politics@midwest.socialEnglish · 1 month ago
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BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — By the 2010s, the rate had declined to 1,073 per 100,000 for Black infants and 499 per 100,000 for white infants, yet the disparity grew to a mortality ratio of 2.15.
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      Racist policies such as redlining which can cause greater exposure to things such as lead (for one single example) can absolutely impact generational health development. So, yes, racism can cause circulatory disease.

      I think you have the wrong platform; this is Lemmy, not an alt. right shithole.

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        • 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.dev
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          Classic symptom of an impoverished community. Could be caused by systemic racism or historical events.

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              I’m sure there are. But usually when things are present in groups of a specific race, it’s related to some form of racism.

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                  Yes, that is a racist as fuck view.

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          You’re right, we should blame black people for choosing to be poor.

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      Follow this guy for more bangers like “Hitler did nothing wrong,” “Trump is the greatest president of all time,” and “Elon is super smart and his dick tastes like candy.”

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          Your whole “argument” is that the effects of systemic racism aren’t evidence of systemic racism.

          It’s a pants-on-head stupid take, and we can smell the fucking privilege on you.

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      There are so many factors to consider, but the main things one should research in terms of disparate health outcomes are: Income, access to healthy food, access to a healthy environment (again see income and housing disparities,) and access to medical care (see income again as well as bias in healthcare that affects outcomes.)

      https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-273.pdf

      https://www.nrdc.org/bio/nina-sevilla/food-apartheid-racialized-access-healthy-affordable-food

      https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2014/spring/racial-food-deserts/

      https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/issue-brief/racial-disparities-in-maternal-and-infant-health-current-status-and-efforts-to-address-them/

      https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4638275/

      https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/07/more-black-americans-die-from-effects-of-air-pollution.html

      https://www.lung.org/clean-air/outdoors/who-is-at-risk/disparities

      Black people are more likely to be impoverished. This means they have fewer choices and access issues when it comes to housing. They are more likely to live in areas that are affected by different types of pollution; which have long term health impacts. They have a harder time accessing healthy food because there are less likely to be decent grocery stores in their communities. If you read the article, you know that black babies are more likely to die of perinatal conditions, which are health conditions before, or right after birth, (see my point about access to healthcare and disparity of health outcomes based on race.)

      While racism that causes these disparities isn’t overt, it’s baked in beneath all of these complex factors. Racism is absolutely a factor, it’s systemic racism.

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