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.”
I think this study reveals the truth.
For all my adult life, it has bothered
me that while I ride the night horse of
Andalusia, there is a black man out
there who, while futilely awaiting
sleep, is plotting on how to break
into my home, steal my belongings,
and slit my throat.
Are there any black pathologies that cannot be positively correlated to white racism? Even though Correlation does not prove causation I am sure there is a correlation between white racism and black abortion rates.
Oh PLEASE!
It has taken me a long time but I’ve lost all hope.
If anyone thinks that there is going to be a revival of principles, common sense, values, government responsibility or anything else that looks like the United States used to be..... FORGET ABOUT IT! The jig is up. The only way left is down.
Maybe in 100 million light years, victim card carrying blacks will take responsibility for SOMETHING in their own meaningless lives? Maybe????
Maybe in 100 million light years, victim card carrying blacks will take responsibility for SOMETHING in their own meaningless lives? Maybe????
Maybe in 100 million light years, victim card carrying folks will take responsibility for SOMETHING in their own meaningless lives? Maybe????
Maybe in 100 million light years, victim card carrying folks will take responsibility for SOMETHING in their own meaningless lives? Maybe????
These people are completely insane.
don’t know what happened there....sorry folks...but at least I take responsibility for it :)
“Naps” ... sounds like one of them thar microagressions to me!
Is there anyone else, aside from Melissa Harris-Perry that will believe this crap?
There has got to be some secret contest that says "whomever can convince the American fool populace of the most ridiculous thing wins"!
Let he who is without racism cast the first stone.
Lol
Good point.
After reading all this I conclude that black people eat more because it’s gets their mind off all the racism they encounter, during the day (?).
“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.”
More likely they can’t sleep due to worrying there haven’t been any racial incidents they can use to explain why their performance was not as good as their paler co-workers. Thinking up imaginary racism is stressful.
It’s clear that white people will have to be deprived of sleep. This is a great opportunity for Clockmed to make a fortune selling his alarm clocks to the honkeys for inflated prices.
Sounds like blacks are neurotic. Maybe they should see someone about that.
Until Blacks in this Country decide to take responsibility for their own actions (or non-actions) blacks will never improve their lives. With liberals providing blacks in America with excuses (it's whitey's fault)for not being smart, being law breakers, dropping out of school without the ability to read and write, children out of wedlock, unable to hold a job, etc. blacks will never amount to anything!
When an inordinate object (confederate flag flap) or (dog whistle of racism) is a threat to blacks or blacks perceived racism because the old media tells them white America are racist simply because of their (white people's) DNA and works the emotions of blacks to the point the object must be removed from their view or they (blacks)cannot survive in racist America, then these same blacks have all ready failed all across this Nation, even before they get started and will never recover from these excuses or perceptions conveniently provided by the old media and professors (socialist hating America) in academia.
I was always told growing up that “sticks and stones may break my bones, but, words will never hurt me.” With the old media telling blacks that white America is racist and they (the blacks) had better listen to the “dog whistles” of racism coming from whitely, the (old media and socialist hating America) effectively keep the blacks on their plantations (voting for liberal democrats) and their minds off the fact unemployment is the highest among blacks in America in the last fifty (50) years (inner city).
So now the very act of Americans going to sleep is an act of “racism” because the poor down trodden blacks in America can't sleep properly because of what whitey has done to them for the last two hundred (200) years!
I would really like to see a single issue the socialist in America have actually solved and effectively fixed, I can't either, that is because the socialist can't fix anything, lest they are no longer needed by the down trodden (blacks)they keep reminding blacks they are put upon by whitey, even when they go to sleep!
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