Recent Posts

Another thought:


I believe the other thing Black people need from white people is ownership. Ownership of what happened. White women were not powerless in the way peano described. Not by a long shot. This isn’t my opinion either. I feel like people will argue me down as if a historian hasn’t already uncovered the truth. And wrote about it. And do you see how the false narrative of powerlessness keeps us in the same cycle. It’s difficult to acknowledge the role white women played because IMHO (see?) that isn’t the nature of women. Most women are nurturing caretaker types which makes a white women raping enslaved African men, and allowing their husbands to rape other women hard to believe. Let’s just say they basically had no rights so we don’t deal with it. 😑 We’ve examined what racism did/does to black people but what has it done to white people to have perpetrated it. Again I just can’t fathom how another woman saw that type of thing go down and did nothing. I think we need to figure that out before we claim 2020 is the social justice hour Black people have been waiting on.


2018 peano response:



“I respect reality; rhetoric not so much.“


Full thread:

2peasrefugees.boards.net/thread/77186/passing-buck


I’m committed to helping peas stand by the words they type.

What was my agenda? How did my agenda and peano differ? Empathetic and compassionate responses would have cost nothing 🤷🏾‍♀️. I posted links from health publications and opinions written by scholars about racial violence and it’s effect on Black people. Only racial bias would describe it as rhetoric and not research.

Never seems to be 🤷🏾‍♀️


Note: Revisionist history and the unwillingness to confront America’s past. Also the boldness in which the falsehoods are shared 🙄

Mothers of Mass Resistance would be an eye opening read. Elizabeth McRae is the author.

In a thread I started about reparations most peas felt like Black Americans were not owed monetary reward from the American government.

2peasrefugees.boards.net/thread/59490/america-say-sorry


I have a question though:

If you are against reparations how do you feel about Black Americans funding their own mistreatment. Of course defund the police but until you stop killing me don’t take another fucking cent in the form of taxes. That seems an easy fix. Another argument from Darcy Collins in the old thread involved generational wealth and homeownership. Here is a recent article about the practice of redlining.

www.cnn.com/2020/08/21/opinions/redlining-greenlining-black-homeownership-mcmorris/index.html

I don’t think trust and parental involvement have anything to do with the medical outcomes of black babies. The study didn’t suggest that was a factor either.

I do think the lack of trust in medical professionals has adverse effects on how Black people navigate health and wellness. The lack of trust is warranted

http://instagram.com/p/CwLPH3mMUTg

Black newborn babies in the United States are more likely to survive childbirth if they are cared for by Black doctors, but three times more likely to die when looked after by White doctors, a study has found.

The mortality rate of Black newborns shrunk by between 39% and 58% when Black physicians took charge of the birth, according to the research, which laid bare how shocking racial disparities in human health can affect even the first hours of a person's life.

By contrast, the mortality rate for White babies was largely unaffected by the doctor's race. The findings support previous research, which has shown that, while infant mortality rates have fallen in recent decades, Black children remain significantly more likely to die early than their White counterparts.


Researchers from George Mason University analyzed data capturing 1.8 million hospital births in Florida between 1992 and 2015 for the new study, which was published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, also known as PNAS.


When cared for by White physicians, Black newborns were about three times more likely to die in the hospital than White newborns, the researchers found.

“Strikingly, these effects appear to manifest more strongly in more complicated cases, and when hospitals deliver more Black newborns," the authors wrote.

"The findings suggest that Black physicians outperform their White colleagues when caring for Black newborns."

The authors did not speculate about the reasons behind the trend, but wrote: "Taken with this work, it gives warrant for hospitals and other care organizations to invest in efforts to reduce such biases and explore their connection to institutional racism."

"Reducing racial disparities in newborn mortality will also require raising awareness among physicians, nurses, and hospital administrators about the prevalence of racial and ethnic disparities," the researchers added.


It's already known that Black infants have 2.3 times the infant mortality rate as White infants, according to the US Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health.And a report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which covered the period between 2000 to 2017 and was published in June, found that Black infants still have more than twice the risk of dying as White infants.