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.”
This just in:
According to mental patients, if you are white be assured that no matter what you do.. it’s racist.
So the good doctor is saying people of color are wimps incapable of handling stress, especially when its something they manufacture/pretend exists? Sounds positively racist. Margaret Sanger would approve.
Yep. That explains it.
Oh, sh*t. That's funny. Haahahhahaaaa.
Twinkie *suspects* that Lazmataz has snuck in a double
meaning, RACIST intent in the caption he wrote
entitled “FIGGERS”! :O/
I’ve been a problem sleeper throughout my life. Now I know why - I’m African-American. Can I have some free stuff?
I’ve been a problem sleeper throughout my life. Now I know why - I’m African-American. Can I have some free stuff?
I’ve been a problem sleeper throughout my life. Now I know why - I’m African-American. Can I have some free stuff?
I’m going to take a nap..now the “Reasearchers” can go F-Themselves and lie with Freddy Krueger.
Really?
Never?
Ever?
It will be a dark day when I employ double meanings to my words.
The 85% of the world that are POC (People of Color) sleep less well because of the 15% whities dominating everything with their racism ... jeeeeeez ...
Even “science” is rotten to the core with political correctness.
The big question should be does the EBT crowd sleep better than the guy who earns an hourly wage.
Did they, by chance, control for obesity, which is correlated with sleep apnea and more common among blacks?
Blacks sleep better than any race i know of...They don’t worry about $hit. Talk to the average black...They are not worried about this country, geopolitics or the future of their children....That’s a generalization...but fundamentally true!
Blacks sleep better than any race i know of...They don’t worry about $hit. Talk to the average black...They are not worried about this country, geopolitics or the future of their children....That’s a generalization...but fundamentally true!
If they would stop speeding around in cars with thumper speakers and pulling up screeching in residential areas at 1:00 and 2:00 in the morning, leaving the speakers thumping well past the normal range when a motorist should cut the ignition and silence the thumping, perhaps they would sleep better; because not so many people with jobs to go to in the morning would be sending resentful brain waves in their direction.
See there! “DARK” DAY!!
Look, I’m just calling a spade a spade. Don’t blacklist me.
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