Figgers.
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.”
Other ethnicities have sleep disorders too:
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Sleep Disturbances: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
They didn’t even consider whether there could be genetic differences between the races.
No weed and malt after 9:00 will cure that problem!
If Black people would stay home at night and get a good night sleep, rather than going out and stealing and robbing people, there wouldn’t be a problem.
Well, if absolutely every effing thing is effing racist, then effing cool. I am a muther-effing racist muther-effer, and effing happy about it.
SO EFF OFF.
That’s exactly what I was thinking!
Good ‘ol Ben, aka Sleepy ...
Figgers.
Did they control for drugs, alcohol, boredom from not working, self-doubt from affirmative action and not knowing who their daddy is?
I love the comments from other FR’ers:
weed and malt after 9 PM
genetic differences
staying home at night and geting a good night sleep, rather than going out and stealing and robbing people
overweight
No kidding? Who would have thunk it.
[[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?]]
Did they also screen for prior or current drug use/abuse- or financial status (the poor tend not to sleep as well)- or lifestyle activities (those who excersize m ore tend to sleep better) Etc Etc Etc-
The damnable thing about ‘studies’ is that you can control them to say whatever you want by hiding certain facts about the studies-
[[So, did they check negros in Africa that go through the day without seeing a caucasioan for correlation of their BS theory?]]
Or did they study black folks in ALL black communities who encounter NIO racism at all? Did they isolate those experiencing racism so that they were not subjected to any racism for aq year or so to find out if there was an improvement in sleep?
Loads of valid questions about this bogus study!
She knows what sleep deprived black people are thinking? She must have ESP. I am going all racist here and say I bet Mexicans have no issues getting plenty of sleep. I wonder what they are thinking? I wonder what Asians are thinking when they cannot sleep? I am a sleep deprived white person, does she know what I am thinking?
Sometimes my wife knows exactly what I am thinking when I am awake at 2:00am. Other times she just pretends she doesn’t know.
My wife says she likes to get her grocery shopping done before 9 because that's before all the little old ladies clog up the aisles.
I'll probably get pilloried for that...
If the shoe fits, wear it.
Regards,
GtG
Ummmm, sleep apnea is strongly correlated with being overweight... and blacks tend to be overweight more than whites. Possibly because they eat more... which I'm sure is somehow the fault of white people...
It’s uncomfortable for them to sleep because they are thinking back over mistreatment, thinking back over maltreatment, thinking back over bias they experienced,....Maybe trying to remember if they left any evidence or got recorded?
After while, when you understand that you “can’t win” with some people,
all you have left is intentionally provoking them...
Read into it what you will.
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