Prof ties black female obesity to Trump policies, racism

Campus Reform ^ | October 15, 2019 | Jonathan McCormick

[Zakeet]

A New Jersey professor suggested on a TV program that racism and President Donald Trump’s policies are responsible for black female obesity.

Rutgers University women’s and gender studies professor Brittney Cooper made the argument during an appearance on “Black Women OWN the Conversation” on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

"I hate when people talk about Black women being obese," Cooper said on the program. "I hate it because it becomes a way to blame us for a set of conditions that we didn’t create."

"We are living in the Trump era," the professor said. "And look, those policies kill our people. You can't get access to good health care, good insurance."

Cooper said that research points to black women losing less weight and at a slower rate than do white women, claiming that public health practitioners tie increased stress to a change in metabolism.

"It's literally that the racism that you're experiencing and the struggle to make ends meet actually means the diet don't [sic] work for you the same," she adds.

[hanamizu]

I’m beginning to think that Trump has replaced ‘climate change’ for all of the problems in the world.

[hinckley buzzard]

It is true that stress affects metabolism and other things being equal can lead to weight gain. This heavyweight’s blaming Trump, however, ignores the last fifty years of black obesity and reveals just how ignorant she is about racism. Like most Blacks, she probably has never actually encountered racism face to face. But she’s a perfesser now, so reality doesn’t matter.

[FirstFlaBn]

I thought it was “food deserts” that caused this. Are they calling the Trumpster a food desert?

[cactusflower]

My first thought was there were no fat, black women before President Trump? My second thought was lipstick on a pig.

[Mastador1]

You know it's because that fat cow,who was a fat cow even before Ol' Bathouse Barry and the Mooch infested the White House, can't take personal responsibility for her rotundity so.........TRUMP!

[ASA Vet]

I haven’t a clue who any of the are.

[ASA Vet]

I haven’t a clue who any of THEM are.

[ASA Vet]

"Gender" also ruins it, unless it's a grammar class.

Oh wait, they can't teach that anymore, it would be racist.

[Sgt_Schultze]

“Hefty” . . . . it’s not just a trash bag.

[Dr. Sivana]

I haven’t a clue who any of THEM are.

They were prominent cast members on prime time sitcoms in the '70s from "That's My Mama", "What's Happening!" and "Good Times". There also shows with regular sized black women (Julia, Sanford and Son), but the shows listed plus others (The Jeffersons) had some big women in there.

[minnesota_bound]

Have her explain Oprah

[catnipman]

“Prof ties black female obesity to Trump policies, racism”

makes sense, because everyone knows that there weren’t any fat black chicks before Trump was elected ...

[catnipman]

“That reminds me of an old joke:”

Question: You know how you can tell diet drinks don’t work?

Answer: Because you only see fat people drinking them.

[DAC21]

How nice of Oprah to give this moron a platform on her network. But then again the two of them have something in common and it’s not the color of their skin.

[Freedom56v2]

How nice of Oprah to give this moron a platform on her network. But then again the two of them have something in common and it’s not the color of their skin.

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The irony is that by giving this moron a platform, Oprah is implying that her product, WW, would be useless to black women while Trump is president...\

Way to torpedo sales Oprah!

[ASA Vet]

I've heard of Sanford & Son, and the Jefferson's, although I never saw them. Those other shows I never even heard of.

I guess missing TV in the 70's was no great loss.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I can believe “she ate the whole thing”.

Rutgers women professors are just as nutty and Marxist as their male counterparts, but they just sound stupider. Must take a lot of practice.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#16. Re “Wonder what beach she got rescued from”.

At first glance, I’d say “Fire Island”.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

If Prof. Cooper wants to lose weight, do it the way I recently did (unexpectedly). Have pancreatic cancer - have part of your liver and pancreas taken out. I can guarantee you that you’ll lose 40 pounds in no time.

In your case, take out your brain, that should guarantee another lose of 8 ounces.

[cranked]

Black female obesity and obesity period, has LONG been a problem and LONG before Trump became POTUS, professorIdiot!