Posted on 01/04/2024 11:35:53 AM PST by yesthatjallen
A person is only about 20% responsible for their own relative healthiness, MSNBC guest Dr. Uché Blackstock told host Charles Coleman Jr. on Saturday’s Velshi. The rest of what affects an individual’s health is decided by systemic factors such as the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow.
Dr. Blackstock joined Dr. L. Ebony Boulware on for a discussion Saturday on Boulware’s recently published study on the “strong link between racism and chronic poor health conditions for Black and Brown communities in America.”
“This study, it defines structural racism as the means by which societies perpetuate discrimination through interconnected systems,” said Coleman, who was filling in for show host Ali Velshi. He asked Blackstock, author of the book “Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine”, to explain how structural racism affects health outcomes.
“I think so often we think about health as individual choices that patients that patients make excuse me, that patients make. And instead, we really need to understand how practices and policies, you know, the legacy of slavery, the legacy of Jim Crow, current-day systemic racism impacts the health of our communities,” said Blackstock.
“Individuals are only responsible for about 20% of what makes them healthy,” she said. “The other 80% are these systemic factors that Dr. Boulware and her colleagues studied in this very, very important research.”
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Sadly the asylums were closed years ago.
Tgese people are clinically, destructively insane.
It’s time to reopen them then.
They sure are.
She’d probably feed a starving village for a year, at most.
Other things that are 80% structural racism:
Preferring Yodels over Twinkies
White guys trying out for the NBA
Jogging in hiking boots
Joy Reid boring monologues
Epstein massages
Smoking Luckys instead of Parliaments
Se, White people just being around black and brown people makes them sick. Thank god I recognized my inherent white privilege and have sworn off all contact with non white minorities so my privilege doesn’t accidentally cause any harm to them.
The last time the DC homicide rate was as high as last year’s, the life span of a young, black male there was lower than a Bengali’s.
an individual’s health is decided by systemic factors such as the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow.
So it’s the fault of democrats.
I love that! I'm going to plagiarize it.
I could never get the people sitting there listening to this thing in green telling them they’re all bad.
I’d get up and leave.
I was going to call her ugly and fat but that’s besides the point so decided not to.
I think that was some DIE instituted mandatory training for all employees. If you fail to attend, you lose your job.
Shortly before I retired, my company hired a black female DIE director with 3 names.
I’m glad I’m free of that mess.
You’d think you could sue a company for putting their employees in that situation.
Re your photo. She takes care of her nails, though.
Scale killer
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