I am sick and tired of people saying America discriminates against Blacks. It’s absolutely not true. Why, the ancestors of most Blacks in America were given free passage from Africa to America, for chrissakes. I’ll bet none of the white immigrants got a free ticket on whatever ship or boat they took to get to America. And then when the blacks got here we provided them with lifetime employment, free meals and even a rudimentary form of social security. White men even offered a full service sexual education to many of those fortunate Black women. What a deal.
And this impressive history of special treatment for Black Americans continues to this day:
Black hospital patients are far less likely to survive cardiac arrest than white patients, new research shows.
And the reason in many cases is that black patients usually go to the hospitals that do the poorest job resuscitating patients.
Just 25.2 percent of black patients who suffered cardiac arrest while they were hospitalized left the hospital alive, according to a study published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association. That compares with 37.4 percent of white patients who survived — a difference of 48 percent.
“That’s huge — larger than any other survival gap by race,” said Paul Chan, a researcher at St. Luke’s Hospital who led the national study. “And it’s poignant because the white survival rate wasn’t very high either.”
Many studies have found racial disparities in the quality of health care. Black and Hispanic preschoolers are less likely to receive routine asthma medications than white children. Minority residents of nursing homes are less likely to get glasses or hearing aids than white residents. Minority women wait twice as long as white women for follow-up tests after an abnormal mammogram.
Hell, one of “them” was elected as President even though he may have been born in Kenya and might be a secret Muslim terrorist. Frankly, I don’t know what more white people can do to make Black people happy. We already let them play on all our professional sports teams. We let Tiger Woods win all those golf tournaments. We let our kids dance to rap music. We televised Michael Jackson’s funeral. We gave Oprah a billion dollar media empire. What more do they want from us, anyway?
Well played sir.
Separate but equal lives on in zombie form.
What more?
Only a stall on the Ark, or to be numbered among the 144,000, come teh Rapture…..
(amusing thought: when Stephen King’s “The Stand” came out, the mortality rate of his ‘superflu’ was such that approx. 144,000 survivors were left. Who was the nominal leader of the good guys? Mother Abigail….a black, female, centenarian)
Glenn Beck makes a poor Randall Flagg, though.
What more?
maybe they could follow the siren call of malkin and Rep. john campbell (RAT-ca) and go galt…or the tried and true “love it or leave it” rhetoric they’ve been so fond of spewing for 40 years…that’d work too.
Hurry, hurry, hurry – step right up!!
A deal like this won’t last!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chaP4MCXp4w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OldToIF5ZGs
A repost of some old material.
http://firedoglake.com/2006/12/17/fdl-book-salon-whistling-past-dixie/
http://science.jrank.org/pages/10839/Prejudice-Varieties-Prejudice.html
http://bit.ly/3GDtqN
One of the arguments that’s invoked by those who subscribe to modern/symbolic racism, a less overt variant of racism which predominates nowadays, is that blacks lack a work ethic (i.e., are lazy) and therefore look to the government for a handout.
You can see that there’s only been a subtle word change that provides a veneer to cover what is at its heart still racism. And many of the adherents of this belief don’t see themselves as being racist, although research has shown that most of these people are uncomfortable around blacks, so their ostensible rationale does not account for their attitude.
Another political attitude that stems from racist beliefs is opposition to affirmative action, under the rationale that giving preferential treatment is discrimination. This attitude assumes that there is no discrimination currently, so affirmative action is therefore a form of reverse discrimination.