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white Folk Talk Like Black Folk Ain’t Listening & Won’t Say Nothing

07 Tuesday Apr 2020

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white Folk Talk Like Black Folk Ain’t Listening & Won’t Say Nothing

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Crowding Make Social Distancing a Privilege in Places Like India and Public Housing

07 Tuesday Apr 2020

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Crowding Make Social Distancing a Privilege in Places Like India and Public Housing

The US & Other Governments Around the World Know This, So, They’re Slow to Provide Personal Protective Equipment PPE) to Black/Brown People Allowing Covid19 Take It’s Toll

Deaths of Inequality: AOC on Black and Latinx Communities at Epicenter of Epicenter of the Pandemic #DemocracyNow

whites Kill the Rest of Us

14 Thursday Mar 2019

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whites Kill the Rest of Us…because

Their Patriarchal Values Don’t Respect the Environment

Study Finds Racial Gap Between Who Causes Air Pollution And Who Breathes It

Headlines this week: whites R killing us

 

First-of-Its-Kind Study Finds Racial Gap Between Who Causes Air Pollution and Who Breathes It

 
Study Finds Racial Gap Between Who Causes Air Pollution And Who Breathes It
Study finds a race gap in air pollution — whites largely cause it; blacks and Hispanics breathe it
 
 

Study finds a race gap in air pollution — whites largely cause it; blacks and Hispanics breathe it

Toxic inequality

“Blacks and Hispanics bear 56 and 63 percent more air pollution, respectively, than they cause by their consumption.”

 

 

An Example: of How Racism Functions in the Life Area of Health & Political/Economics

Global Warming…Environmental Racism…How Racism Functions in the Life Area of Health & Political/Economics

13 Wednesday Mar 2019

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Study Finds Racial Gap Between Who Causes Air Pollution And Who Breathes It

 

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An elevated view of smog and air pollution in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

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Pollution, much like wealth, is not distributed equally in the United States.

Scientists and policymakers have long known that black and Hispanic Americans tend to live in neighborhoods with more pollution of all kinds, than white Americans. And because pollution exposure can cause a range of health problems, this inequity could be a driver of unequal health outcomes across the U.S.

A study published Monday in the journal PNAS adds a new twist to the pollution problem by looking at consumption. While we tend to think of factories or power plants as the source of pollution, those polluters wouldn’t exist without consumer demand for their products.

The researchers found that air pollution is disproportionately caused by white Americans’ consumption of goods and services, but disproportionately inhaled by black and Hispanic Americans.

“This paper is exciting and really quite novel,” says Anjum Hajat, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington who was not involved in the study. “Inequity in exposure to air pollution is well documented, but this study brings in the consumption angle.

Hajat says the study reveals an inherent unfairness: “If you’re contributing less to the problem, why do you have to suffer more from it?”

The study, led by engineering professor Jason Hill at the University of Minnesota, took over six years to complete. According to the paper’s first author Christopher Tessum, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington, the idea stemmed from a question at a conference.

Tessum presented earlier research on how blacks and Hispanics are often more exposed to air pollutants than whites. After he finished, someone asked “if it would be possible to connect exposure to air pollution to who is doing the actual consuming,” says Tessum. According to Tessum, no one had ever tried to answer that question.

It’s a big, complicated issue, but studying it could address a fundamental question: Are those who produce pollution, through their consumption of goods and services, fairly sharing in the costs?

What kind of data could even answer such a multifaceted question? Let’s break it down:

For any given area in the U.S., the researchers would need to know how polluted the air was, what communities were exposed to pollution, and the health effects of that level of exposure.

Then, for the same area the researchers would need to identify the sources of that exposure (coal plants, factories, agriculture to name a few), and get a sense of what goods and services stem from those emissions (electricity, transportation, food).

Finally, whose consumption of goods and services drives those sectors of the economy?

“The different kinds of data, by themselves, aren’t that complicated,” says Tessum. “It’s linking them where things get a little trickier.”

The most relevant air pollutant metric for human health is “particulate matter 2.5” or PM2.5. It represents the largest environmental health risk factor in the United States with higher levels linked to more cardiovascular problems, respiratory illness, diabetes and even birth defects. PM2.5 pollution is mostly caused by human activities, like burning fossil fuels or agriculture.

The EPA collects these data through the National Emissions Inventory, which collates emissions from specific emitters, like coal plants or factories, measures of mobile polluters like cars or planes, and natural events like wildfires, painting a detailed picture of pollution across the U.S.

The researchers generated maps of where different emitters, like agriculture or construction, caused PM2.5 pollution. Coal plants produced pockets of pollution in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, while agricultural emissions were concentrated in the Midwest and California’s central valley. “We then tied in census data to understand where different racial-ethnic groups live to understand exposure patterns,” says Hill.

Tessum then used previous research on the health effects of different exposure levels to estimate how many premature deaths per year (out of an estimated 102,000 from domestic human-caused emissions) could be linked to each emitter.

“We wanted to take this study further by ascribing responsibility of these premature deaths to different sectors [of the economy], and ultimately to the consumers, and maybe consumers of different racial and ethnic groups,” says Hill.

To do that, the researchers actually worked backwards, following consumer spending to different sectors of the economy, and then ultimately to the main emitters of air pollution.

Consider one major contributor to emissions: agriculture. Consumer expenditure surveys from the Bureau of Labor Statistics provide detailed data on how much money households spend in various sectors of the economy, including food.

These data gave the researchers an idea of how much blacks, Hispanics, and whites spend on food per year. Other expenditures, like energy or entertainment, are also measured. Taken together these data represent the consumption patterns of the three groups.

To translate dollars spent on food into air pollution levels, the researchers traced money through the economy. Using data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the researchers can estimate, for example, how much grocery stores or restaurants spend on food. Eventually, these dollars are linked back to the primary emitters — the farms growing the food or the fuel that farmers buy to run their tractors.

The researchers have now completed the causal chain, from dollars spent at the grocery story, to the amount of pollution emitted into the atmosphere. Completing this chain for each source of pollution revealed whose consumption drives air pollution, and who suffers from it.

After accounting for population size differences, whites experience about 17 percent less air pollution than they produce, through consumption, while blacks and Hispanics bear 56 and 63 percent more air pollution, respectively, than they cause by their consumption, according to the study.

“These patterns didn’t seem to be driven by different kinds of consumption,” says Tessum, “but different overall levels.” In other words, whites were just consuming disproportionately more of the same kinds of goods and services resulting in air pollution than minority communities.

“These results, as striking as they are, aren’t really surprising,” says Ana Diez Roux, an epidemiologist at Drexel University who was not involved in the study. “But it’s really interesting to see consumption patterns rigorously documented suggesting that minority communities are exposed to pollution that they bear less responsibility for.”

Diez Roux thinks this is a good first step. “They certainly make assumptions in their analysis that might be questioned down the line, but I doubt that the overall pattern they found will change,” she says.

Tessum points to some hopeful results from the study. PM2.5 exposure by all groups has fallen by about 50 percent from 2002 to 2015, driven in part by regulation and population movement away from polluted areas. But the inequity remains mostly unchanged.

While more research is needed to fully understand these differences, the results of this study raise questions about how to address these inequities.

Tessum stresses that “we’re not saying that we should take away white people’s money, or that people shouldn’t be able to spend money.” He suggests continuing to strive to make economic activity and consumption less polluting could be a way to manage and lessen the inequities.

Diez Roux thinks that stronger measures may be necessary.

“If want to ameliorate this inequity, we may need to rethink how we build our cities and how they grow, our dependence on automobile transportation,” says Diez Roux. “These are hard things we have to consider.”

Jonathan Lambert is an intern on NPR’s Science Desk. You can follow him on Twitter: @evolambert

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Living, white Is Dangerous…Deadly, In Fact…

11 Monday Feb 2019

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Living, white Is Dangerous…Deadly, In Fact…Even for white People

Patriarchal Culture is Unhealthy

White people see the symptoms but are too patriarchal to see the problem, patriarchy.  That’s why they don’t qualify to analyze any of America’s problem…only Black folk quality.

See the bottom of this collage, they say, “…Black and Hispanics, [despite being victims of the system of racism/white supremacy,] tend to have stronger family support, community support and church support to carry them through…rough times.”  

This support system is cultural; it’s a benefit of Matriarchal culture…soooo, white folk need to start living matriarchally,  is what those white women are saying in books like 

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Offered Scholarship; Temple U At Game; But Principal Said Jamal, Can’t Play…You Homeless…Got No Fixed Address

21 Friday Sep 2018

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Offered Scholarship; Temple U At Game; But Principal Said Jamal, Can’t Play…You Homeless…Got No Fixed Address

Racism 202: Perfect example of ‘internalized racial inferiority’ which is the root of ‘Blacks hurting Black syndrome‘…principal telling student not to play because he’s homeless.

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Principal Jackson told the coach he’d be fired if Jamel played.  Wow!!!  All the principal needed do is give Jamel an address.   Can’t we think outside the box to help each other?

No…not when we suffer from ‘internalized racial inferiority’ which means we act like honorary white people and treat each other like whites treat each other.  So, even though the DC State Athletic Association (DCSAA) cleared Jamel to play, the principal went out of his way to bench Jamel shortly before the home game.   The principal was probably angry and felt he had to have the last word after the team held a protest in favor of Jamel and being out-voted by the DCSAA. 

The principal needs to be sent to 12 Steps for Racialized Thinking where he’ll learn the difference between helping and hurting people of color, he’ll make amends, and learn a new way of thinking.

“Internalized racial inferiority’ is a mental health issue…it’s ‘racialized thinking’…a habitual way of thinking about race and can be best addressed by 12 Steps for Racialized Thinking program.

Happy ending, Jamel’s been offered a permanent home now but, just in case, if he needs to, #Jamelcanusemyaddress.

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Do Black Genes Count?

06 Monday Aug 2018

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Thorough Cancer Research Impossible Without Black / African Genes 

NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE

Cancer Scientists Have Ignored African DNA in the Search for Cures

BY JESSICA WAPNER ON 7/18/18 AT 9:01 AM

 

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HEALTHCANCERAFRICAGENETIC RESEARCH

Charles Rotimi first realized the future was passing him by around 2005. The Human Genome Project had recently finished spelling out an entire set of human DNA. Following that breakthrough, scientists in six countries across the globe had begun collecting blood samples to find genes responsible for various conditions, including serious diseases, which could lead to treatments. And Rotimi, who was leading that collection effort in Africa, had the sick feeling that history was repeating itself.

He wasn’t concerned about himself so much as his homeland. In the past, African patients have had poor access to medical advances, even as scientists use them as research subjects. Rotimi worried that genetics might again exploit the 1 billion people n sub-Saharan Africa, ignoring their need for treatments for HIV, tuberculosis, malaria and cancer. “The genomic revolution was going to fly over Africa,” he says, “and tomorrow’s medicine will not work for all.”

His concern was well founded. Over the next few years, scientists came out with a frenzy of discoveries about our DNA that could possibly lead to new treatments for diabetes, cancer, psychiatric illnesses and other serious diseases. But they were drawing from a small slice of the world: Nearly all of the published work was based on populations with European ancestry. By 2009, ­fewer than 1 percent of the several hundred genome investigations included Africans.

…Cancer issue cover for feature Genome

POINT: Know your worth…does that require knowing pre-1492 African history?…from an African vs European perspective?

Suggested Solution:  To know your history & learn your worth…listen to Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop, the man who proved white ‘scholars’ wrong on who the 1st man on earth was, which culture, matriarchy or patriarchy is the 1st & oldest, proved that Egypt was Black, etc.

Back Story By Dr. Ama Mazama & The Future of White Supremacy & Why Racism’s Allowed To Kill Black Babies Before Birth

12 Thursday Jul 2018

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Racism Kills Mothers & Babies

Listen to Serena Williams…’after the birth of her baby, she suffered a pulmonary embolism…she said she alerted her doctors and nurses of her her condition and they ignored her concerns’.

 

For the Back Story…Dr. Ama Mazama ftp.dyabukam.com wrote 8/22/17:

Demographic Trends: Political Implications and The Future of White Supremacy …People of Color Need Know 2 B Woke

A Common but False Perspective

According to a widely shared belief, Africans are disappearing at a fast pace, and soon, Africa may very well be completely depopulated. “In one hundred years,” a friend of mine proclaimed authoritatively not too long ago, “There will be nobody left in Africa.” That such a demoralizing narrative should have become widespread is not really surprising since it is continuously reinforced by Western media always eager to show images of troubled Africans dying and starving. AFRICA IS A LARGE, POPULOUS CONTINENT AND WE ARE BOMBARDED WITH THE ICONS OF DISASTER FROM CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC TO LIBERIA, FROM GUINEA TO ERITREA, AS IF THE ENTIRE CONTINENT AND ALL OF THE PEOPLE ARE IN THE AGONY OF DEATH. Indeed, whether it is ravages allegedly caused by AIDS, famines or wars, the future, we are thus led to believe, looks quite bleak for Africans on the continent. (Of course, we are never told where AIDS or the weapons used by Africans to kill one another came from).

 The Dwindling European …  

 Yet, such a narrative does not survive even a cursory review of the latest reports on African demographic trends, such as the 2015 United Nations Report on World Population Prospects. In fact, contrary to what is widely proclaimed and believed, it is clear that far from dying, African people are reproducing at a faster rate than most other people. The current African fertility rate is quite high, with 4.9 children per woman, compared to a world average of 2.5 children per woman. In addition, since the African population is quite young, with 70% being under the age of 19, there is an inbuilt momentum for population growth. Moreover, not only are large numbers of African babies being born every day, but life expectancy has also increased significantly (by 6 years in the 2000’s) in Africa as well, which means that Africans live longer lives. The current African population is about 1.2 billion and is expected to reach 2 billion in the next 20 years or so. According to the United Nations Report, “Africa continues to experience very high rates of population growth. Between 2015 and 2050, the populations of 28 African countries are projected to more than double. By 2100, ten African countries are projected to increase by at least five-fold: Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Somalia, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia.” As for Nigeria, it is expected to have the third largest population in the world by 2050: “Nigeria’s population, currently the seventh largest in the world, is growing the most rapidly. Consequently, the population of Nigeria is projected to surpass that of the United States by about 2050, at which point it would become the third largest country in the world.” NIGERIA HAS ALREADY SURPASSED THE POPULATION OF EVERY EUROPEAN NATION AS WELL AS RUSSIA. THIS WILL INCREASINGLY BECOME A POLITICAL ITEM OF DISCUSSION AMONG EUROPEANS AND AMERICANS.

Why, then, one is compelled to ask at this point, this spread of gloomy lies about the physical demise of Africans? With so many young men and women on the African continent, one may only imagine Africa, not as moribund, but as a vibrant place, full of life, ideas, projects, AND dreams to be realized –especially given the many natural endowments of Africa. One realizes, of course, that the construction of Africa as place of death continues to occupy a central place in the paradigm of Afro-pessimism in which Africa is supposedly a “lost, dark continent,” from which Europeans have tried to rescue the “natives,” through enslavement and colonization, and today, through “globalization.” The objective is, among others, to make Africans lose hope in themselves, and continue to look to Europe for salvation while Europe continues to plunder Africa.

European Populations are in Decline

whites will become a minority in Marseilles within the next fifteen years or so. Of course, as foreigners move into France, England, and other parts of Europe, they do not simply bring their physical selves but also their culture. Thus, a grand mosque is being built in Marseilles as we write, which will have the capacity to house no less than 7,000 worshipers of the Arab god, Allah. The whole project is expected to cost $28 million. Attempts by a group of white citizens to prevent the erection of the Mosque failed in court (Kempf, 2008, p. 51).

Whites have also lost considerable demographic ground, and will continue to do so, in the United States as well. In effect, the white population has declined by 24% in 50 years, decreasing from 88% of total population in 1960 to 64% in 2010. For the first time, according to the 2010 Census, babies of color outnumbered white babies under the age of two, and white children will become an absolute minority by 2020, that is, in only a few years from now. Moreover, according to figures released by the US Census Bureau in June 2015,white people are dying faster than they are being born, and are thus expected to become a numerical minority in the US in the next 30 years (Kempf, 2008, pp. 101-102). Five states (California, Texas, Hawaii, New Mexico, and Nevada), as well as the District of Columbia already have a majority population of color.

What thus emerges is a similar demographic scenario in the “white” world characterized by low fertility rates due to cultural preferences (e. g., individualism, materialism); anti-life attitudes; as well as physiological impairment, most specifically decreasing sperm counts. According to a study of semen quality performed in Western countries between 1938 and 1990, for example, the sperm counts of European men has decreased by 50% over 50 years! And there is no reason to believe that it has not continued to decrease since 1990. In fact, a more recent study of semen quality conducted in France between 1989 and 2005 suggests just that, with a loss of one-third of sperm. Possible causes for such a development include stress, environmental chemicals (e.g., pesticides, plastics); an unhealthy diet (highly processed foods, loaded with sugar, hormones, antibiotics, trans-fat, dies, and fake salt, and more recently, GMOs), as well as cellular telephones.

While one would never suspect, based on the information conveyed by Western media, the dire situation in which Europeans find themselves (by their own doing), Kempf laments with good reason that “If the demographic processes outlined in this book continue unabated, then the very existence of all European people is in grave danger.” (Kempf, 2008, p. 143). What he suggests to ensure white survival is no less than separation, in the form of what he calls an “ethnostate,” a “European homeland” similar to Israel for the Jews. Europeans would withdraw there and protect themselves the best they can from foreign encroachment, all in the hope of protecting their white genes and culture. Needless to say that this is already a lost battle for sooner or later Europeans will end up vanishing due to very low reproduction rates – even more rapidly if they are left on their own.

Strategic Responses to European Population Decline

White elites have been aware of this danger for quite a long time. They have met behind doors, and probably continue to do so in order to find solutions to their self-inflicted predicament. As early as 1929, the famous American Philosopher of Science, Bertrand Russell would declare that “It cannot be expected that the most powerful military nations will sit still while other nations reverse the balance of power by mere breeding.” To be honest, Kempf’s recommendation of the creation of a separate European state is on the gentle side since the author does not recommend exterminating us. Other recommendations, however, have been far less benign, as it was revealed, for example, when NSSM 200 was declassified in 1990. The National Security Study Memorandum 200, also called The Kissinger Report, defined the official US policy toward the so-called “over-population” problem, that is, the rapid growth of babies of color around the world. Several agencies, such the CIA, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), as well as the Departments of State, Defense and Agriculture were involved in drafting US policy toward people of color. In a nutshell, it was resolved that the US should take swift measures to prevent or curtail the demographic expansion of people of color since such expansion would interfere with US access to natural resources around the world. In Kissinger’s own terms, “(…) the U.S. economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad; especially from less developed countries. That fact gives the U.S. enhanced interest in the political, economic, and social stability of the supplying countries. Wherever a lessening of population pressures through reduced birth rates can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to resource supplies and to the economic interests of the United States.“ The implementation of population control programs was thus a high priority, with a push for the legalization of abortion worldwide; financial rewards for nations to augment and maintain their abortion, sterilization and contraception-use rates; the brainwashing of children of color; paying women of color to have abortions; or simply demanding population control in exchange for food relief during a disaster. NSSM 200 also emphasized that US policy should not be carried openly by the US government in order to avoid charges of, and resistance to foreign imperialism, but instead should be implemented by US-controlled agencies and NGOs. Therefore, one should not be surprised that in 1986, for example, the World Bank announced that, as far as Africa was concerned, its top priority was the reduction of the African population. Any loan from the World Bank would automatically include a commitment to population reduction on the part of the borrowing African country. Also, the Population Council, an agency created in 1952 by John Rockefeller III, and heavily involved in population reduction schemes around the world, has also received generous support from the US government, such as a $2 million grant to curtail the fertility of “poor” women in the United States in 1969.

Crafting a Logic for the Masses to Believe

Finally, in any case, NSSM 200 insisted that population control programs should always be presented as altruistic, that is, as having the interest of the people of people of color at heart, for example, the defense of people’s “right” to not have children, or only a few, of women’s “rights,” or facilitating “development,” since it was said and repeated that a large population hinders “development,” with Europe and America being held as success stories and models to emulate.

In addition to the push for abortions and contraceptives, two salient strategies employed by Europeans to curtail the growth of people with melanin must be mentioned. The first one is the imprisonment of young people of color in white-dominated countries, thus preventing them from reproducing as much or at all. This is the case in the United States, where no less than 745,000 black men are locked up. In France as well, “Muslims” make up 70% of the prison population. The second strategy is the use of bioweapons, that is, the use of viruses and bacteria to kill or incapacitate people of color. Examples of such bioweapons would include the “mysterious” HIV virus, Ebola, Chikungunya, and maybe the more recent Zika? Reports of diverse vaccines generously distributed around the world and loaded with sterilizing agents have also surfaced. The latest and most sophisticated bioweapons, though, have now taken the form of genetically engineered food injected with spermicides. In 2001, a US company, Epicyte, announced a breakthrough invention: contraceptive corn, loaded with anti-sperm antibodies taken from sterile women. Epicyte presented this invention as its contribution to solving the world’s “over-population problem,” a mere euphemism for the elimination of people of color.

As we conclude, we are reminded of Marcus Garvey’s accurate statement that, “We of the Negro race are suffering more than any other race in the world from propaganda – Propaganda to destroy our hopes, our ambitions and our confidence in self.” Educating ourselves about developments in the world, especially of a demographic nature, will go a long way in preventing us from falling victims of anti-African propaganda and white bluff. Far from gloomy and desperate, the future looks quite bright for African people. Indeed, despite the many continuous and savage assaults against us, we are still around and thriving. Furthermore, there is ample evidence that the young people of Africa will not be as gullible as their parents, and that the wind of African Renaissance has started blowing over our beloved Continent. Vigilance, however, is a must given that, as time passes, Europeans will become more and more desperate, and susceptible to commit greater crimes against us.

References:

Kemp, Arthur. (2008) 2015. The Immigration Invasion: How the Third World is Destroying the First World and What to Do to Stop it. Ostara Publications.

United Nations World Population Prospects, 2015.

http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/publications/world-population-prospects-2015-revision.html

The 1st Step To Solving Any Problem Is Simple…Talk About It…Then, Study It…Become An Expert On The Topic

11 Wednesday Jul 2018

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The Answer Is Simple…1st Step…Talk About It…

In A Racism 12 Group Ideally; Step 2,  Go Beyond Personal Experience…Research & Study It, Become An Expert On It

Here are some facts…per my research….

 

 

Low Birth Weight Babies And Black Women: What’s The Connection?

Your baby’s weight at birth is one of the key signs that the baby is healthy. So, when the baby has a low birth weight, which means they weigh less than 5.5 pounds at birth, they could be at risk for several health issues.

As newborns, they may have problems like difficulty breathing, heart problems, or bleeding in the brain. Later in life, they have a higher than normal risk of developing diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, or becoming obese.

Your baby’s weight and racism might not seem like topics that belong in the same sentence.  But they’re more related than you might think. Let’s dive into why being a Black woman makes you more at risk to have a low birth weight baby.

Racism—Starting In The Womb

It’s not being Black and female that increases the risk of having a low-birth weight baby. It’s the connection between being Black and being discriminated against that increases the risk.

Unlike other disparities, education doesn’t even matter. Babies born to college-educated Black women are still more likely to have a lower birth weight than babies born to white women who dropped out high school.

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1AEBF46D-776E-45F5-811E-CAE54E0D29BERacism Causes Stress

Many things can cause stress, from looking for a job to losing a loved one. And racism is right up there with the rest. Many Black women don’t even realize they are facing the stress of racism because it’s become so normal.

There are a few reasons why racism can make you stressed:

  • It’s rude. That might not sound very scientific, but—it’s true. When someone says or does something racist, it’s demeaning and negative. That can take a major toll on your psyche and health. Even your medical team might treat you differently—usually, without intending to—which can lead to subpar treatment during pregnancy.
  • Others’ racist attitudes can make it more difficult for Black women to find work, get housing, or receive good medical care. All of these factors impact the baby’s health and your health during pregnancy.

And Stress Affects My Baby’s Weight, How?

Everyone’s body produces cortisol (a.k.a. the “stress hormone”). During a normal pregnancy, your cortisol level can increase by 2 to 4 times. However, stress can make your body release more cortisol, and that’s where things get messy. Too much cortisol can reduce blood flow to the fetus, and that can restrict your baby’s growth.

Chronic stress can also weaken your immune system. This makes it harder for your body to fight infections, including infections in the uterus. This can lead to premature birth (a baby born before 37 weeks). And premature birth causes low birth weight in two-thirds of underweight newborns.

The bottom line: Racism is a powerful stressor that causes your body to release the same hormones it would in any other stressful situation. If you’re constantly facing discrimination, that stress can keep on building up and affect your baby’s birth weight.

Racism Can Also Affect You And Your Baby Like This …

Stress (like the stress caused by racism) can affect your behavior, which can, in turn, lead to low birth weight.

When people are stressed, they are more likely to turn to cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs. All of these activities can slow the baby’s growth in the womb, causing low birth weight.

  • It’s estimated that smoking during pregnancy accounts for 20 to 30% of babies born with a low birth weight, and up to 14% of premature births.
  • Secondhand smoke can increase a baby’s risk of low birth weight by as much as 20%.
  • There is no safe time or way to drink. Depending on your drinking habits, you can give your baby a 16% increased risk of low birth weight—as early as the second half of your first trimester.

… And Like This

You’ve heard the saying, “strong, independent Black woman.” And power to you if you are one.

But did you know that being strong and independent can actually be a major stressor if you’re Black?

White women who become strong and independent by climbing their way up the socioeconomic ladder have improved health outcomes. Black women? Not so much.

One of the reasons has been referred to as “weathering,” a term coined by Arline Geronimus, a professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She explains that Black women have dealt with racism for such a long time that they feel like they’ve been weathered down.

Black women have put up with a lot of disadvantages. They’re more likely than white women to be single householders, raising an entire family. They’re also more likely to be unemployed, live in poverty, and lack access to health care.

Over time, their bodies just can’t take it anymore. They become more stressed, less healthy, and more likely to have babies born with health problems, like low birth weight.

Recap: White women become strong, independent, and healthy. Black women become strong, independent, and not quite so healthy.

That Boiling Blood

There’s something else that Black women deal with that can cause low birth weight: high blood pressure.

High blood pressure (hypertension) is when the force of blood flowing through blood vessels is consistently too high. It can increase your risk for heart attack and stroke.

But it doesn’t just affect you. High blood pressure can mean your developing baby doesn’t get enough oxygen or nutrients. This can cause him to have slow growth and be born underweight.

You can get high blood pressure for a whole slew of reasons. One is that the stress we just talked about can increase your appetite.  And if you’re already having pregnancy cravings, it can be very easy to reach for the foods you know you shouldn’t eat.

Once in awhile? Not a big deal. But if you overdo the pizza and ice cream, you run the risk of developing high blood pressure, which is another risk factor for low birth weight.

Black women may have high blood pressure more than white women. However, it’s also something that all sisters—Black, white, Asian, Hispanic—need to worry about when pregnant.

Stress, lack of exercise, poor sleep, and unhealthy eating can all lead to high blood pressure. And any woman, no matter the color of her skin, may be more likely to have all of these risk factors while pregnant.

There’s Something You Can Do About It

Remember: You may not be able to single-handedly control racism in the U.S. But you can control how you cope with the stress:

  • Refuse to turn to negative coping mechanisms—no smoking, no drinking, no drugs.
  • Surround yourself with supportive girlfriends and drama-free loved ones, at least until the baby is born.
  • Remind yourself that you’re loved, worth taking care of, and can have a great future.
  • Eat a healthy diet. Yes, you’re pregnant, but you still shouldn’t overeat.
  • Work out. Thirty minutes of mild to moderate exercise daily (e.g., brisk walking, swimming) should do the trick.
  • Meditate or join a prenatal yoga class.
  • Address the cause of stress. If your boss is a jerk, if you’re partner is pissing you off, if your landlord is a hot mess, it may be time to have a come-to-Jesus meeting with anyone who is causing you stress, whether it’s related to racism or not.
  • Get enough sleep. Adults need about 7 to 9 hours per night, and pregnant women usually need even more than that. Figure out how you can add some extra sleep time to your day.

If you are pregnant, hoping to one day become pregnant, or know someone who is pregnant, send this information to them. Have a conversation with the medical team during prenatal care about what you can do make sure your baby is born at a healthy weight.

 

SOLUTION:

One of the best ways to relieve stress is talking, sharing, conversation …in a safe space, so, 2/3 persons, start a Racism 12 Step Talk Group…to eventually include an educational piece that explores and examines racism/white supremacy. Read what the victims of oppression who’ve studied it say, like:

  

& listen to the Dr. Frances Cress Welsing on YouTube.

Just like you need to know what to do about hypertension when you have it, you need to know what to do about internalized racial inferiority when you suffer from it.  And, the two doctors above is a good place to start the education process.  

I’ll provide the steps…just ask…& Why 12 Steps For Racialized Thinking forthcoming by Jackie Morgan

 

 

 

 

Know European History of Childhood… Trump…Continues That History

09 Monday Jul 2018

Posted by Jackie Morgan in #culture, Family/Relationship/Sex, health, History, war

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#USagainstbreastfeeding

An Example:

Trump administration threatens those nations that prefer breastfeeding…

 

Trump administration reportedly bullied other governments in an attempt to prevent the passage of an international resolution promoting breastfeeding.

The Trump administration reportedly bullied other governments in an attempt to prevent the passage of an international resolution promoting breastfeeding. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

Advocates for improved nutrition for babies have expressed outrage over reports that the Trump administration bullied other governments in an attempt to prevent the passage of an international resolution promoting breastfeeding.

Under the terms of the original WHO text, countries would have encouraged their citizens to breastfeed on grounds that research overwhelmingly shows its health benefits, while warning parents to be alert to inaccurate marketing by formula milk firms.

The New York Times first reported how the Trump administration reacted forcefully to the resolution, which otherwise had the consensus support of all other assembly members. It pushed to remove a phrase from the draft text that would exhort governments to “protect, promote and support breast-feeding”.  To Know

                  How formula milk firms target mothers who can least afford it

https://bit.ly/2MZzxjb

This is not a new issue:

2003                        Baby milk marketing ‘breaks rules (West Africa)

1985                        Breastfeeding versus infant formula: the Kenyan case

1981                        The Controversy Over Infant Formula (Jamaica, Ghana,                                                         Nigeria, Peru, Panama, Thailand)

1960’s                    Nestle’ in the Developing World: a Formula for Trouble?

 

To know colonizer descendants don’t place a high value on their own children is to know they can’t place a high value on ‘our’ children. 

 

 

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