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Black Babies Are Still Dying—And America Let It Happen (blackpressusa.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/usa@midwest.social

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[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Racist policies such as redlining which can cause greater exposure to things such as lead (for one single example) can absolutely impact generational health development. So, yes, racism can cause circulatory disease.

I think you have the wrong platform; this is Lemmy, not an alt. right shithole.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone -2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

And black on black homicide? Racism causing that?

I’m well aware that Lemmy is a faaaaaaar left commie platform.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Classic symptom of an impoverished community. Could be caused by systemic racism or historical events.

[–] Whirlybird@aussie.zone -1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a single problem in the black community that isn’t caused by systemic racism in your opinion? Doesn’t seem like it.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 points 5 hours ago

I'm sure there are. But usually when things are present in groups of a specific race, it's related to some form of racism.