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Some minority kids may be less likely to wear a seat belt
Los Angeles Times ^
| October 15, 2011
| Jeannine Stein
Posted on 10/16/2011 6:17:52 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Minority children might be at greater risk for car crash-related injuries because fewer wear seat belts, a study finds.
The study, presented Saturday at the American Academy of Pediatrics' national conference in Boston, looked at statistics on 37,375 children younger than 16 collected from the National Trauma Database from 2002 to 2006. Among those children, less than half -- 45.7% -- were in restraints. The lowest use of seat belts was found among black, Hispanic and Native American children.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: honkiesfault; seatbelts; whiteysfault
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Seems like a potential campaign issue.
To: ConservativeStatement
It’s clearly racism. Parenting has nothing
to do with it.
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posted on
10/16/2011 6:19:59 PM PDT
by
WKTimpco
(Traditional Values Counter Revolution)
To: ConservativeStatement
So, are we to conclude that minority children can’t afford seat-belts in the Obama economy, or are they just too stupid to use it?
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posted on
10/16/2011 6:20:15 PM PDT
by
Artcore
To: ConservativeStatement
Headline should read: “Nanny Statism Ineffective: Women and minorities hit hardest.
4
posted on
10/16/2011 6:20:20 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(9/11: Aggression is attracted to weakness like sharks are to blood, and we were weak. We still are.)
To: ConservativeStatement
and their PARENTS don't make them wear one because??? cultural i guess
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posted on
10/16/2011 6:20:20 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: ConservativeStatement
Even seatbelts are racist!
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posted on
10/16/2011 6:20:54 PM PDT
by
GeorgeTex
(Obama-Four M President (Mendacious Manchurian Muslim Marxist))
To: ConservativeStatement
Once again, personal responsibility failure.
At least here in Indianapolis, and I bet a lot of other places, if you don’t have the proper seat when it comes time to take the baby home, the hospital gives the family one.
I’m sure Baraq Hussein Obama will push for legislation to initiate an office of Federal Child Seat Distribution and Compliance.
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posted on
10/16/2011 6:21:39 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(DEFEAT BARAQ 2012 DEPORT BARAQ 2013)
To: GeorgeTex
>>Even seatbelts are racist!<<
No, PHYSICS is racist! If it wasn’t then little brown and black children wouldn’t need seatbelts.
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posted on
10/16/2011 6:23:02 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Herman Cain 2012 -- the man we need at the time we need him)
To: Artcore
Forrest Gump’s mother’s quote was the first thing I that came to mind.
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posted on
10/16/2011 6:23:02 PM PDT
by
mazda77
(and I am a Native Texan)
To: ConservativeStatement
Are these kids driving themselves? Where are the parents?
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posted on
10/16/2011 6:23:02 PM PDT
by
NoGrayZone
("Get ready for an aberration of historic proportions" - Herman Cain)
To: ConservativeStatement
I have reported this post to “Attack Watch” as its clearly racist.
To: ConservativeStatement
Driving home from work on Saturday, I saw a white girl, probably about 8 or 9, in the front seat of mom’s SUV.
She had her seat belt on; however, she also had her bare foot sticking out the window.
I would have been smacked silly if I attempted that.
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posted on
10/16/2011 6:26:58 PM PDT
by
NoGrayZone
("Get ready for an aberration of historic proportions" - Herman Cain)
To: ConservativeStatement
Don't know where the study was done but here in Central Texas most of the 63 Chebbies have more hydraulics than your average Boeing 747 but haven't seen one yet with 14 seat belts......
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posted on
10/16/2011 6:27:19 PM PDT
by
Feckless
(I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
whoops forgot the </sarcasm>.
To: ConservativeStatement; Revolting cat!
It’s a cultural thing. In the third world, there are fewer cars so those who never had one certainly had no use for seat belts.
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posted on
10/16/2011 6:29:58 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
('Are now or have you ever been a member of the tea party?' is NOT a legitimate debate question.)
To: NoGrayZone
Your husband or wife would have hit you? :>)
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posted on
10/16/2011 6:32:33 PM PDT
by
TaMoDee
(GO PACK GO to Super Bowl XLVI)
To: ConservativeStatement
How is it my fault and how much will it cost me?
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posted on
10/16/2011 6:34:41 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(ALCS/NLCS playoff thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2789907/posts)
To: Artcore
There were three kids under 5 in a black woman’s car in Oakland the other week, a rusty late 80’s Honda who took a tight turn at about 20 mph.
Unsafe, but I guess I’m just jaded with 2 small kids.
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posted on
10/16/2011 6:35:20 PM PDT
by
wac3rd
(Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
10/16/2011 6:38:29 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: ConservativeStatement
Maybe that’s why they’re a minority.
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posted on
10/16/2011 6:41:13 PM PDT
by
MV=PY
(The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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