Posted on 02/20/2021 4:19:55 AM PST by MtnClimber
Here comes the demand for “rest reparations,” after "hundreds of years of sleep deprivation" that was due to systemic racism. They're serious, too.
Teen Vogue magazine recently published an article by two writers who are calling for “rest reparations” in addition to the regular, old, garden-variety reparations for African Americans, which advocates have been advocating for years. Navild Acosta and Fannie Sosa contend that, on average, Black lives are shorter than white ones because Black people experience “generational fatigue” due solely to the fact that they are, in fact, Black.
The two allege that “the American dream is a sleepless one” for Black folks, and claim to have had an epiphany when they realized the reason they were always tired was because they were impacted by "hundreds of years of sleep deprivation" that was due to systemic racism. Their article, titled "Black Power Naps is Addressing Systemic Racism in Sleep," reveals the Black Power Naps initiative, which purports to be an "artistic initiative with components including physical installations, zines, an opera, and more." Huh?
Acosta told the magazine that black people and people of color inherited sleep deprivation through years of slavery and control, saying, “We're dealing with an inheritance of sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation was a ... deliberate tactic of slave owners to basically make the mind feeble. That same tactic has only evolved." Huh?
Sosa insisted that generations of slavery have made it imperative for Black people and people of color to rest as much as they can in the following generations. I’ve read that it isn’t really possible for one person to “catch up on sleep” in his or her own lifetime, so I seriously doubt one could “catch up on sleep” that one’s great-great-great-great grandfather was deprived of.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Black sleep deprivation is real.
My teacher-wife asks her students on video link where Mom is at 2:00 P.M.
“Mom’s still sleeping.”
“Have you had anything to eat today?”
“No.”
That in spite of EBT, free breakfast delivery available from school (the buses do front door delivery), etc.
EVERYTHING is racist!
LOL - whenever we feel it can’t get more stupid...
Why have a bedtime when you don’t have to go to work next morning?
I find I get my best sleep only after putting in a day of honest labor accomplishing something that is meaningful to me and to my company and society.
This is teaching people to literally hate whites. I had a nightmare, blame whitey. See them on the street, hate them, it is moral if you beat them for being seen, if they don’t defer to their moral superiors.
White is the new Jew.
Same here; learned early on that if you wanted something, you worked for it.
Blacks learned the same until LBJ started the “cash for kids” program, destroying for many both the black family and work ethic in one shot. Of course, plenty of non-blacks learned how to play the game as well; the marginalization of Judeo-Christian values (often with collusion of religious leaders) did the rest.
No question a lot of these murders are related to the drug trade, and a lot of that takes place outside the normal 9-5 workday...
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