A 'Slave Health Deficit'?

The Washington Post ^ | February 12, 2005 | Robert L. Woodson Sr.,

[neverdem]

Letter to the Editor:

I have known Courtland Milloy for more than 20 years, and although I have disagreed with him at times, I have always considered him to be sensible and sensitive. But his Feb. 6 Metro column about the president's call for Social Security reform causes me to highly recommend that he see a race therapist.

Milloy contradicts himself. He lays out all the ways that we blacks are killing ourselves: cigarettes, unprotected sex, obesity and high salt intake. Then he indicates that somehow these self-inflicted wounds are about a "slave health deficit," and that some researchers say they have found links between hypertension and racism. He then concludes that somehow the president not only does not care but is a cheerleader for this black dance of death -- all because he wants privatization of Social Security so badly that he wants blacks to die early to make a case for it.

Milloy needs to take a deep breath and recognize that white racism has not and cannot operate by remote control to force blacks to engage in this self-destructive behavior. If he has knowledge of how whites have invented some sort of remote control device that causes blacks to engage in self-destructive behavior, then he should tell us where it is. That would be a real story.

The writer is founder and president of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise.

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[Darkwolf377]

The letter writer makes a good assessment of this weirdo, socialist...um, did I already say weirdo?

[jerseyboy4truth]

I love the liberal philosophy... blame someone else for your stupidity and then make them pay for it.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Here's the Milloy article.

[3_if_by_Treason]

I love the liberal philosophy... blame someone else for your stupidity and then make them pay for it.

Hey, it's nice work if you can get it, and you can get it if you.....cry.

[freespirited]

African American men and women have higher incidence of colon, rectal and lung cancer than any other group.

And they have a lower incidence of some other diseases--such as osteoporosis. Lots of women in the U.S. die from complications of hip fractures. White and Asian women are overrepresented in those statistics. Should they be crying racism?

Moreover, black women are more likely to die from breast cancer even though white women have a higher incidence of the disease.

You don't suppose it's possible that black women are more likely to have more aggressive forms of breast cancer that aren't as responsive to available treatments? Or that they present for treatment at a later stage of the disease because they don't avail themselves of free screening techniques as much as white women?

Nah. It has to be the president's fault. It just has to be.

[Crazieman]

More post traumatic slave disorder bull$%@$

[neverdem]

Thanks for the link. Milloy is a piece of work.