I was going to make an off color joke but I think I’ll skip that today in case anyone might take it seriously
Too lazy to check the article to see whether or not they checked to see if differences in obesity rates was a significant confounder.
I thought about posting the graph showing blacks are killing other blacks at phenomenal rates, but I don’t care to go looking it up.
Everybody knows anyway, the reason for blacks dying at higher rates than whites.
What’s the statistic? 1 in 15 black males can expect to be shot (by another black male) in their lifetime?
80,000 excess deaths per year over 20 years... Take away the gang banger deaths and there is almost no discrepancy.
So what were the causes of these excess deaths?
Clearly compensations are due.
IIRC there are also issues with high blood pressure and reticence to do colon cancer screenings. The BP issue could be part genetic. Diabetes also an issue of course with the fat positivity movement in the black community.
Shame on you PBS, the word “data” is plural, so your headline should read, “Data show massive disparity-———”.
You see, people are pushing back about reparations being “for slavery”, so they’re having to cook up all these OTHER reasons why society should pay people for no reason.
Regarding the disproportionate effect of C19 on African Americans: African Americans are Zinc and Vitamin D deficient. (See citations below.) This is further proof that Zinc and D play a critical role in the defense/defeat of Corona virus, esp. when used with chlorquine. Onset of C19 may include pinkeye, and loss of taste and smell. These are symptoms of Zinc deficiency.
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20147474 https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12966353 https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/04/bill-sardi/modern-medicine-knew-of-zinc-cure-for-coronavirus-infections-a-decade-ago-but-failed-to-put-into-practice/
Zinc is critical, but too much is bad. So negro systems automatically downregulate its absorption because Africa is so rich in Zinc.
Likewise Blacks in North America are deficient in Vitamin D because their dark skin inhibits sunlight conversion D. Much more sunlight days in Africa than in Buffalo, NY!
Blacks have higher rates of prostate and colon cancer, too, because of Zinc and D deficiencies.
Mainstream medicine and the regieme will not admit to any of this; they want the disparity in Covid deaths to be a function of “racism.” And they don’t want to admit that D and Zinc supplementation might have simply been sufficient to stay the epidemic without social controls and vaccinations. True of Blacks, and true of all of us. Government should have immediately recommended supplementation — but they were not looking for a solution.

we all will probably die with something sooner or later.
Many deaths of young blacks attributed to “lead poisoning”.
Blacks have become their own worst enemies — crime and bad health habits = shorter lifespans.
That is racism. Enough white people must be killed to even up the ratios.
The obesity rates for blacks is over 50%. That is the real cause of most medical differences.
Career paths often chosen by blacks might also contribute to an early demise:
Carjacking
Small armed robbery
Burglary
Rapping
Pimping
Drug dealing
Not interested.
Maybe if they reduced the rate at which they are killing each other?
Just the tip of the iceberg.