Is ‘Racism’ Killing Black People?

Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, December 15, 2017

What else could it be?

Black women are more likely to die during childbirth. And it’s your fault.

“Black women in the US are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than their white counterparts,” states an article in the Huffington Post, and racial disparities exist “even when socioeconomic status is accounted for.” The author, a “health & social justice advocate based in Washington, DC,” says the racism helps explain it:

Maternal mortality in the Black community is at its core tied to the experience of living while Black in the US, which can be a very stressful and traumatizing experience. The stress prompted by racism, discrimination, poverty, sexism, injustice, and violence, can cause a physiological response known as ‘fight or flight.’ While this stress response is beneficial in short-term situations, chronic exposure becomes harmful.

There has been a spate of recent articles blaming white racism for the relatively high black rate of maternal mortality. Indeed, racism is so powerful that even the tragic deaths of wealthy and educated blacks are laid at its door.

For example, NPR’s story on black maternity highlighted the death of Shalon Irving, an African-American woman who was a lieutenant commander in the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service. Irving died only a few weeks after giving birth, and the explanation could hardly be poverty or poor education.

Indeed, as author Nina Martin noted:..........To Read More.....

My Take - This study - like so many others dealing with race - is a logical fallacy.  Why?  Because it does the same thing most of these kind of studies do - it never tells the whole story.  Recently I wrote the article Whose Fault is it Really? showing the same pattern of inappropriate use of statistics.  I wrote:   

There was a time a Jew or an Italian couldn’t get a job in a factory in Cleveland. There was a time a Jew couldn’t be hired as an engineer in Cleveland. I’ve few personal experiences regarding Asians in this matter, but based on the direction they went, their experience was most likely much the same - but as far as I can tell, none of those groups are on his charts. Why? After all – if labor statistics doesn’t lie, why aren’t they listed on the charts to show how the Davis-Bacon Act and all the progressive welfare programs impacted them? Wouldn’t that seem important in order to get a clear and accurate overall picture of government interference in the social structure of America? 

 Studies such as described in this article are nothing more than conclusions in search of data.  This article points this out very well. 

There's one more thing.  Black women represent 40% of the American population getting abortions.  Is that the fault of whites also?  Actually - it is in part - because it has been white liberals who've promoted abortion in this country - but let's get his right once and for all - these are white liberals, leftists, progressives, and with the exception of a few demented RINO's - they're invariably Democrats.  Does that mean Democrats hate blacks?  And since the NAACP, and virtually all in black leadership positions, and black ministers are Democrats and promote every Democrat issue including abortion on demand - does that mean blacks hate blacks more than anyone else?  Does that make them racists? 

So then - we must conclude racism really is the cause of the early deaths of all these black women and it's black racism againt other blacks that's the real problem?  Wow! I'm shocked- shocked I tell you!

Last point:  There's a reason why statistics are called the "arcane science".