Posted on 10/28/2015 10:59:29 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
Scientists have determined that sleep is the latest thing to be racist.
News of the development comes from National Journal in a lengthy article that debuted late last week.
The article, which manages to reach nearly 6,000 words, cites several studies, including one conducted at the University of California, San Diego. For the five-year study, researchers hooked 164 human subjects up to a polysomnography machine (which features a brain scanner, eye trackers, breathing sensors and much else). They found that black participants and white participants experienced sleep differently. In a nutshell, the white study subjects achieved slow-wave sleep — which is the really good kind — about 20 percent of the time. Black subjects only reached this quality level 15 percent of the time.
A study published in June in an academic journal called SLEEP also concluded that white people, black people, Chinese people and Hispanic people sleep differently.
University of Maryland, Baltimore psychologist Danielle L. Beatty Moody suggested that the sleep problems black people experience at night can be attributed to all the racism they encounter during the day.
“It’s uncomfortable for them to sleep because they are thinking back over mistreatment, thinking back over maltreatment, thinking back over bias they experienced,” Beatty Moody told National Journal. “In thinking about those experiences, they are getting more aroused, more cognitive arousal, which does the opposite of what you need it to do to go to sleep.”
Stony Brook University preventive medicine professor Lauren Hale suggested that poverty is the main issue. She said black people tend to suffer more sleep-related problems because they tend to live in poor areas.
“I have never seen a study that hasn’t shown a direct association between neighborhood quality and sleep quality,” Hale told National Journal.
“If you know somebody in your neighborhood who has had a break-in, you might feel pretty uncomfortable shutting your eyes falling asleep while your two or three children are sleeping in the room next door and no one else is there to protect them,” she added.
University of Chicago epidemiologist Diane Lauderdale noted that rich black people sleep better, but still not as well overall as white people do.
“The race gap is decreased if you take into account some indicator of economics,” Lauderdale told the Washington, D.C.-based digital media company.
It’s a “tragic spiral,” National Journal explains. Less sleep is a symptom of poor health which affects black communities and poor health leads to even more poor health among black people.
Sleep apnea also affects black people at a higher rate. According to one study, 12.8 percent of black participants suffered from sleep apnea compared to 7.4 percent of white people.
“Untreated sleep apnea leads to cardiovascular disease if not death,” “charismatic Haitian-born psychologist” Girardin Jean-Louis told National Journal. “There are many times we go, we give talks in churches, and we hear stories of people who died, and we always say to ourselves, ‘You know, I think that was untreated sleep apnea.'”
The assertion that sleep is racist comes in an addition to the long and ever-growing list of racist things in every nook and cranny of American life including coconut bras, golf jokes about Barack Obama, hump day, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and, of course, “Thomas and Friends.”
It's shocking that half of the country isn't walking around with black eyes and fat lips.
Im so happy that I can sleep peacefully at night because I’m white! Darwinism FTW! /s
Naps are racist?
Yawn....I’m gonna have to sleep on that one.
That's quite an assumption to make.
Oh, for Pete's sake! Maybe all that black-on-black violence has them on edge.
DANG!
“It’s uncomfortable for them to sleep because they are thinking back over mistreatment, thinking back over maltreatment, thinking back over bias they experienced,” Beatty Moody told National Journal.”
And we whites who all go back to generations of wealth and ease are sleeping just fine???? /s
It never ends in our “color-blind” society.
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Interesting. My wife and I always like getting our “around town chores” such as filling up gas, grocery store, Sams/Costco shopping done from 0900-1100 because the feral criminal crackhead-type elements here in Little Rock aren’t even awake and around until noon.
What a load of psychobabble. Sleep apnea also affects overweight people more than those who are not. Did the study cross-screen for overweight subjects in addition to race? If the black participants were heavier, than it is likely that their quality of sleep was not as good as the whites’.
That's quite an assumption to make.
And Global Warming.
Obviously Ben Carson was never a part of these studies. He seems to sleep just fine where ever he is.
A true "scientist" would see the opportunity to prove the theory, a liberal would ignore it.
Well, that was quick! Got a question about something... pop up the racism explanation.
“Oh, for Pete’s sake! Maybe all that black-on-black violence has them on edge. “
If I were a young black male in da hood, I wouldn’t sleep well either.
As a Christian, I dream of Rome feeding Christians to lions and therefore blame Italians when I am tired at the office. Give me money!
Yeah, well our family loses sleep when we hear of black on white crime such as:
News anchor raped and murdered locally
Local murders and
...and ...
they just LOVE to shoot at our cops
Yeah.....lots of sleep lost..and that's not including our local terrorism story:
Little Rock Army recruit murdered by black muslim Carlos Bledsoe
Government mandated drugs for whites will rectify this soon.
Because if researchers acknowledge that there are real racial differences, that would be racist.
The Liberal creed is that racial differences are exclusively limited to skin color, and that there CANNOT ever be any kind of mental differences.
Sleep apnea is associated with overweight, is it not? Is that possibly a factor in accounting for the difference? I have no idea whether it is, but at least it's a falsifiable hypothesis where verifiable measurements can be taken. As opposed to, you know, thoughts of bias (detected how and defined by whom?) experienced in someone's dreams causing wakefulness (how?) . . .
In short, can anyone detect the presence of the scientific method in any of the investigators' speculations? I didn't think so.
And yet I can detect the scale of the budget, and hazard a hypothesis—easily proved or disproved—at how the investigative team was chosen.
Everyday Discrimination Prospectively Predicts Inflammation across 7-Years in Racially Diverse Midlife Women: Study of Women's Health across the Nation
"Self-reported discrimination has emerged as a predictor of negative psychological and physical health outcomes across racial/ethnic groups. The goals of this study was to determine whether C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker of inflammation and risk factor for future cardiovascular disease (CVD) was independently predicted by everyday discrimination or whether race or body mass index (BMI) modified this association over a 7-year period among 2,490 women from racially diverse backgrounds"
Golly! I think she's got an agenda. I take it there's big money in Baltimore academia for researchers performing studies where racism is a component. Add 'women' and 'healthcare' into the mix and it's an academia gravy train.
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