Posted on 05/08/2020 11:16:32 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Reports that the new coronavirus is disproportionately killing African Americans in the United States are no surprise to the country’s public health researchers. Numerous examples, from polluted water in Flint, Michigan, to parasites like hookworm in Alabama, have long shown that African Americans are more exposed to environmental dangers and ill health than white Americans.
But a study into one of the most enduring of these threats — lead poisoning among children —provides a new measure of what many say is the toxic effect of systematic racism in the US.
There is no safe level of lead in the blood, which means even trace amounts can damage brain cells. But it is particularly dangerous for children in their pre-school years, when it can disrupt brain development. Overall, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that around 2.5% of children aged between 0 and six in the country have an “elevated blood lead level”.
Using publicly available data collected by the CDC from a representative sample of thousands of children aged one to five over an 11-year period, the study, published in February by the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, found that black children living below the poverty line are twice as likely to have elevated levels of lead in their blood than poor white or Hispanic children.
The CDC did not offer a comment on the new study, on the grounds that it was not involved in writing it.
Statistically, the increased risk of lead poisoning associated with being black persists even when you correct for all other factors, from poverty to education levels to the presence of smokers in the home, to quality of housing. …
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The election means the black minds must be manipulated to hate, so these blacks will again take their chains from the DNC and do as they are told by their massahs. Hate is one of the DNCs favorite tools and a sign of the spirit behind such hate.
***from polluted water in Flint, Michigan, to parasites like hookworm in Alabama, have long shown that African Americans are more exposed to environmental dangers and ill health than white Americans. ***
Say what! I take it that whites in Flint Mich are immune from lead in water as it appears to ONLY affects blacks, and hookworm ONLY affects blacks but not whites. Perhaps the blacks should start wearing SHOES and not step in dog poo which has the hookworm in it. Whites were taught that over 100 years ago!
I’m sure that if they investigate further they’d find that lead poisoning disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic DEMOCRATS at a higher rate than Black and Hispanic Republicans.
Therefore, I’d conclude that being a liberal is more racist than being a conservative.
The phrase “environmental racism” is bizarre word salad in and of itself. It seems to say that the environment itself is racist.
Damn...we’re going to hear rivers of this divisive crap until after the November election when it will lighten up...for a bit.
To rat bastard libtards, everything is racist?👎
Uh..............................planned parenthood, Chicago gang bangers, uh full of sh###
We stopped making leadbased paint in this country back in 1975. If these eyeball kids are still being exposed to lead, it ain’t from defective paint surfaces.
Don’t the Germans have enough of their own problems to worry about lead in America?
Allahu Akbar!
It’s likely from their plumbing.
In which case, you replace the plumbing.
Or eating paint chips.
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