Racism and Poverty Are Silent Killers in America. Literally.

Not mentioned - Actual killers.

Culture that believes that "bad is good" can result in poverty and early death.

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Booze and drugs can shorten your life. So can living in places where being murdered is 10X more likely, thus dragging the overall life expectancy numbers down.

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And everyone is free to leave those places and be safer.

The epidemic of extreme lead allergies in the inner cities is what is killing POC. Ingesting lead from the barrel of a gun is lethal sometimes.

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djmed

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Somebody needs to come get their village idiot!

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Culture that believes that "bad is good" can result in poverty and early death.

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Yep.

Being educated and intelligent is “acting white.”

Prison time gets you street cred.

Having multiple kids with different partners is acceptable.

Being on welfare is not considered shameful.

Disputes between individuals is usually settled with extreme violence.

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people of color are more likely to have worse health outcomes and shorter lives due to racism and poverty.

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Until you dig into taking care of themselves and compliance with doctors orders.

You know the great thing about circumstance? It can change and/or be changed.

I completely agree that not everyone starts from the same starting blocks. Some families have had a half-dozen generations to build those starting blocks for the future generations. Some have been stuck in the cycle of poverty or impoverished areas. Those chains are not easy to break.

But, if you’re going to break them, it has to be a discussion about the individual, not the “system”. There is no fixing that without the individuals “stuck” making an active choice to remove themselves. It has to be a conversation about culture, motivations, and family values. You cannot have kids grow up in a culture that glorifies criminal lifestyle and expect them to not be influenced by it. If the culture and the community start holding themselves to hire standards, only then can they collectively rise from poverty.

There’s a reason not all minorities experience the same challenges generation after generation. Asian Americans were put in containment camps and stripped of their assets barely 75 years ago. And yet, somehow, they are the most prosperous ethnic group in the country. Why is that?

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Racism and Poverty Are Silent Killers in America. Literally.

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Here is a better article from NPR about obesity in black women.

"Obesity in America is a problem across the racial spectrum. But columnist Debra Dickerson suggests that African-American women are more inclined to be overweight because African-American men prefer them to be so."

So now it's white people's fault that black men prefer obese women???