Coronavirus and Systemic Racism:
Racist Professor Demands Tens of Trillions Dollars More be Confiscated from One Group, Based on Racist Targeting
Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
Everything this racist professor says is a lie, including "and" and "the."
I have yet to hit any of his links to "research," because I know in advance they're all fake. Back in 1999, in Losing Our Language, Sandra Stotsky noted that education "research" consisted of an endless regression of "scholarly" articles, each of which claimed to be based on "facts" unearthed by earlier researchers. When Stotsky went back to the earlier "researchers," she found that there were no facts. They merely asserted that the facts had likewise been discovered by their predecessors. Stotsky found an endless chain of baseless opinions masquerading as "facts."
Sandra Stotsky is more courteous than I am. I would speak of an endless chain of lies, rather than "opinions." And what Stotsky found in education "research" is true of all sorts of disciplines.
"It's about racism, not race, when coronavirus hits communities of color hard" | Column
Tampa Bay Times
Will witnessing the suffering our system produces—seeing it laid bare–finally move us to act? A UF professor wonders.
![A man wears a protective mask as walks in a parking lot April 13, 2020, in St. Louis, where parts of the city have been hit much harder than others by the coronavirus outbreak. Of people who are known to have died from from COVID-19 in St. Louis, blacks are dying at a much higher rate than other populations. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) [JEFF ROBERSON | AP]](file:///C:/Users/Add1d/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.jpg)
A man wears a protective mask as walks in a parking lot April 13, 2020, in St. Louis, where parts of the city have been hit much harder than others by the coronavirus outbreak. Of people who are known to have died from from [sic] COVID-19 in St. Louis, blacks are dying at a much higher rate than other populations. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) [JEFF ROBERSON | AP]
Published Apr. 15
Before last week, it had been a long time since racial health disparities were the subject of a White House press briefing. But as evidence began to emerge that communities of color were suffering disproportionately from COVID-19, long-standing health disparities, particularly among African Americans, were thrust into the spotlight.
In his White House remarks, Dr. Anthony Fauci acknowledged that "we have known literally forever" that chronic conditions such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and asthma are deep-rooted plagues afflicting the African American community. The pandemic, Fauci noted, is "shining a bright light on just how unacceptable" these disparities are because they make COVID-19 more lethal.
[Yet another reason to ignore Fauci.]
[English translation: We have known literally forever that blacks afflict themselves and their children with chronic conditions such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension. About asthma, we're not so sure, because reports on blacks and asthma are inseparable from fraudulent claims.]
Meanwhile, the Administration responded to concern about the lack of national data on racial inequities in the pandemic. Seema Verma, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service, assured the public that CMS "can now stratify by demographic information, so that we can look at race as a factor."
[No, we can't. If that were so, we could look at race a a factor in interracial crime. But "experts" always tell us that we may not.]
It is heartening to see health inequities getting the attention they deserve at the highest level of government. Yet it is disconcerting that messages from the White House erase what we have known for decades—that racial health inequities are a consequence of systemic racism, not race.
["We have known" no such thing.
Blacks do not suffer from "health inequities," whites do. Whites must pay for their own health care, as well as that of blacks and Hispanics. The racism in question is anti-white racism, which is the opposite of what this racist fraud asserts is the problem.]
Our leaders' silence about the systemic causes of health inequities creates two problems.
["Silence"? All any white ever hears today or has for many years is that he is responsible for every problem blacks suffer, from the morning shows to the late night fake news.]
First, it leaves a vacuum that is likely to be filled with noxious ideas. One example is the suggestion that racial health disparities are rooted in innate biological differences. This assumption has a sordid history in American medicine and persists despite overwhelming evidence that it is wrong.
[He has no evidence for anything.]
Last Wednesday, Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy perpetuated the myth of innate racial difference in an interview with NPR. Cassidy, a physician, claimed that African Americans might experience higher rates of diabetes because of "genetics." Sen. Cassidy offered no evidence to support his claim, nor could he—there isn't any.
[He doesn't want to hear the truth, to wit, that blacks' problems with diabetes is mostly due to their terrible habits. As for genetics, I don't know, and neither does he.]
That brings us to the second problem: Evading the systemic causes of racial health inequities deflects attention from steps we could take right now to reduce unequal suffering.
[We can't do anything; blacks have to take care of themselves.]
Systemic racism refers to policies and practices that create and enforce racial inequities in major systems of society—our legal system, education system, health care system, and so on. Research makes clear that these systems are the source of racial health inequities. The evidence is particularly robust for the "underlying conditions" that appear make COVID-19 more deadly: obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and asthma.
[There is no such thing as "systemic racism" (or "structural racism") against blacks. The term is a hoax created by mooks like this character, Clarence Gravlee, to "explain" the LACK of racism against blacks.]
The most obvious inequity is racialized poverty. Federal Reserve board data show that, for every dollar of wealth in median white households, median black households have about a dime. This massive wealth gap, which fuels the health gap, is not attributable to individual differences in savings habits or even to differences in income. It stems from decades of racist policies that subsidized white wealth and limited opportunities—including the opportunity for good health—among people of color.
[It is not news that blacks don't save, have a crime rate about ten times that of whites, have a weak work ethic, and an IQ on average 15 points lower than whites.]
Racist policies also explain race-based residential segregation, a fundamental cause of health inequities. [Lie.] Many health-sustaining resources vary by place: the quality of schools [blacks destroy 'em.], condition of housing [ditto], exposure to pollution garbage], reliability of transportation [unreliable black drivers], availability of healthy food [liar], access to safe places for exercise [blacks' fault for shooting them up!], access to quality health care [blacks demand incompetent, black healthcare providers]. All of these factors are known to inflame racial health inequities, and all are amenable to policy change [no, they aren't].
Beyond systems, we know that the stress of dealing with racism is toxic. [But blacks know nothing of that; he should be talking about whites' suffering.] [Fake] Studies show that exposure to discrimination has far-reaching biological effects, including obesity, elevated blood pressure, poorer diabetes control, impaired immune function, and accelerated cellular aging. Discrimination in health care settings compounds these effects, exacerbating inequities in access to care. During the current crisis, these inequities are likely to grow, as the health care system comes under increasing strain.
In a White House briefing last week, President Trump expressed bewilderment at the magnitude of racial inequities. "This is something that has come up," he said, referring to disproportionate death rates from COVID-19. "Why is it that the African American community is so much, numerous times more [likely to die] than everybody else? It doesn't make sense."
[Of course, it makes sense. Trump has surrendered to the race hustlers, like this crook.]
In reality, there is no mystery. As Dr. Fauci noted, racial health inequities didn't just come up. And the deadly toll of COVID-19 in communities of color makes perfect, tragic sense once we acknowledge the real underlying condition: systemic racism. The only question is whether witnessing the suffering our system produces, seeing it laid bare, will finally move us to act.
Clarence (Lance) C. Gravlee is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida, where he holds affiliate appointments in the College of Public Health, the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations, and African American Studies. His research [sic] on racial inequalities in health has been published in scientific journals, including American Journal of Public Health, American Journal of Human Biology, Annual Review of Anthropology, Economics & Human Biology, and Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry.
Have you noticed that EVERY public issue results in a series of anti-white diatribes?
ReplyDeleteAt the least an anti-white spin is put on everything.
Hall of Fame commentary by N.S.
ReplyDeleteMy take:
Genetics is just about everything when discussing disease and how the body fights it.It's obvious from reports at nursing homes,cruise ships and every walk of life--that not everyone gets killed by coronavirus attacks.The immune system,a by-product of genetics,is what lets some seniors recover from COVID-19,while others roll over and die in hours or days.
Some "healthy" doctors die as fast as a compromised 90 year old after contracting the WU-FLU;cops working together as partners come in contact with someone that's contagious;Both catch the virus.One cop is asymptomatic,the other dies--and no one knows why.
Yes,many deaths are easily and obviously attributable to heart disease,diabetes etc,but many are unexplained.
The blacks may have a predisposition genetically to be unable to fight the infection.Add to that the disregard blacks show for social distancing and generally good decision-making and you have a recipe for "disparity" of racial deaths.
The media will ignore genetics and blame environment--what else is new?The "environment" media always refers to,is whitey(which is more simplistic to report than "there's a difference in the races genetically").
Maybe the coronavirus pandemic will open that discussion up,as scientists do more research on the subject of who and why some people are immune,while others are not.
--GRA
ADDENDUM TO "AVOID BLACKS AND LIVE LONGER" RULES.
ReplyDeleteThat steadfast rule should be implemented during normal times,but now,with many infected blacks refusing to take proper steps to reduce the transmission out in public,here are extra precautions for a "Pandemic Event" like we are experiencing today:
GRA:#1:Avoid blacks in stores.Avoid stores with blacks IN them.According to the media,70% of blacks are infected--compared to whites.
#2:If you must enter such a store,spray any area where a black has been with anti-bacterial soap or cleaning fluid like Pine Sol.Ask a store employee to sanitize any surface a black has touched or breathed on w/o wearing a mask.
#3:Blacks sneezing or coughing, without a mask,should be reported to police.MSM says blacks are full of the virus--why shouldn't we believe them?There are some racist blacks that we must assume, may be intentionally trying to get whitey;Assume either malevolence or ignorance,but don't assume anything good willed in that situation,
#4:It is not racist to safeguard yourself against a race that refuses to assist in stopping the spread of COVID-19.Lesta Holt,Margaret Brennan and many more have repeatedly announced "a disparate amount of A-A's are catching the virus."
Heed the warning.
If blacks don't give a damn--to stay healthy--whites MUST!
--GRA
The colored react to different medications in different ways than do whites. High blood pressure medicine for one. Medicine to lower the blood pressure work well in whites but not so good in the colored. Their systems just react differently. The doctors all know this too.
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