‘Structural racism’ makes heat waves more dangerous for black New Yorkers, city says

New York Post ^ | August 7, 2022 | By Jesse O’Neill

[ConservativeStatement]

Black New Yorkers are more likely to fall ill during heat waves due to “structural racism,” the city’s Department of Health says.

A Thursday letter from officials to medical workers warns that extreme heat “is the deadliest type of extreme weather” and that black people are twice as likely to die from heat stroke as white people in the Big Apple.

[ConservativeStatement]

"leafier affluent areas" sounds very privileged. /sarc

[ealgeone]

But the libs tell us AC is bad and we shouldn’t have it.

[EvilCapitalist]

Black people can’t afford to go and buy a window air conditioner?

[ConservativeStatement]

The price of electricity will then be labeled unfair.

[BenLurkin]

Leftists are so predictable.

[Bayard]

“Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you and you will resent its absence”

[Deaf Smith]

City heat is different than that of the Serengeti at the same temperature?

[joshua c]

the “structural racism” the dems have been in charge of forever?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Does anyone with half a brain believe this crap?

… don’t answer

[AnthonySoprano]

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Structural Racism is when people’s kids are in dangerous schools and their neighborhoods are dangerous- and they still repeatedly vote slavishly for their Dem Leaders.

Sacrifice your kids for party.

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[GreyFriar]

Remember environmentalists are against air conditioners as they heat up the atmosphere and thus increase globull warming. Just tell them at they are being good environmentalists and to get use to the heat...And that goes for all city dwellers.

[Jess Kitting]

For crying out loud--They have a BLACK mayor!

What is he doing to help? Why can't they take care of their own damn problems?

In my community, if there is a problem, we, the residents and our representatives, take responsibility and do something about it. We never make a national issue of it.

I guess in NY, it's easier to blame everyone else for your woes and chalk everything up to racism.

The Big Apple is rotten to the core.

[SkyDancer]

What happens to them in Africa when the temps are in the low hundreds?

[Dr. Sivana]

Two of my children are black. We are in Phoenix. They are fine in the heat, and they need more sun then whites for adequate Vitamin D. My Dutch-Canadian wife suffers, though.

[nascarnation]

We need to relocate these poor people to areas that typically don’t have hot summers. Alaska has a lot underused land area.

[caver]

I consider this article to be racist.

[BeauBo]

This reminds me of the gag headline “Asteroid Heading to Destroy the Earth - Women and Minorities Expected to be Hardest Hit”

[nascarnation]

My guess would be that in Africa they mostly aren’t in high rise tenement buildings with no landscaped areas surrounded by concrete and asphalt.

[SkyDancer]

Yes but they’re out in the plains with no protection other than mud huts. Heat is heat.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

With rampant obesity in the Negro community, this would be a good time to start slimming down with "Sweating Rapping with the Oldies". Shake that booty!