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I wonder if Pocahontas knows that taking the race of a patient is pretty standard operating procedure.
Of course if you lie and say you're Native American that could throw the numbers off.
This old yarn again......
Were you upset to learn Trump considered himself to be Swedish most of his adult life including in the Art of the Deal book. His belief was based on his family’s oral history, no diff than Warren. Trump’s father rewrote his own history and found it easier to rent apartments in his tenements to Jewish immigrants by hiding that he was German.
There are reasons to like or dislike Warren. This is not one of them.
...she's claiming that people like you - middle-aged mom nice white lady hospital volunteers and other healthcare workers - will cause blacks and browns to die unnecessarily of COVID-19 due to your racism. And you lap it up.
Seeking to understand what makes someone tick is hardly lapping.
She sees the healthcare system from a perspective of an MD and her own life experiences, different than my own. Maybe if I were unable to hail a taxi in NYC, I might have a tendency to view life through a racial lens, too.
This Dr is obviously smarter than the average bear. She graduated from Harvard She is an MD. She is a professor at a prestigious medical school.and she has likely faced raw racism throughout her life, including from those who believe the only way she got opportunity was through affirmative action, instead of working her butt off.
That's not racism; that's just being in touch with reality. More than 90% of blacks at Harvard would not be admitted if they weren't black.
And why do you mention "working her butt off"? Do you think she's not smart because she's black?
Why is your takeaway “ teaching minorities to hate whites and America“
That's just the reality of the situation. On so many fronts, there is a concerted effort by media, academics and activists to raise the level of racial resentment and hostility. Blacks especially are encouraged to see their own personal crises and struggles as the result of white malfeasance.
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and not recognition of a problem that could be improved upon?
I suspect there is a real risk that "blacks and browns" will suffer disproportionately from COVID-19, because they will, on average, make poorer decisions about how to cope with it. And there probably are things that could be done, but this race-baiting piece contributes nothing toward that effort.
People of African descent and Hispanic heritage are already aware of disparities in the healthcare system. Spare us the dramatics about hating whites. People who are dealing with this are simply trying to survive.
People of African descent and Hispanic heritage are already aware of disparities in the healthcare system. Spare us the dramatics about hating whites. People who are dealing with this are simply trying to survive.
A part of this is genetics where blacks have a much higher incidence of asthma. A pulmonary disease like COVID-19 is going to hit blacks harder. There’s also the socioeconomic issue independent of the quality of health care. If you eat and couch potato and smoke your way into chronic behavior-induced diseases, COVID-19 is more likely to kill you.
There is also the socioeconomic aspect of social distancing. I’m affluent. I don’t have to go to work. I can afford to have food on hand where I don’t have to be in public places. I’m far less likely to contract the disease.
Racial stats alone mean nothing. If blacks are getting COVID disproportionate to their numbers, it doesn’t necessarily mean racism. Do blacks smoke more than whites? Do they live more “bunched up” in cities? Are they following the social distancing rules to the same degree? Do they have higher rates of lung disease, obesity, or diabetes? Anyway, it could be an interesting study AFTER we recover from this nightmare, but there is no place for it now. The liberal media, and liberal politicians (here’s looking at YOU, AOC), need to put a sock in it.
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