Well, the American Medical Association almost missed the bandwagon on racism, but apparently they have WOKEn up and joined a bunch of other woke bandwagon-riders including several cities and towns in Massachusetts such as Beverly, Boston, Chicopee, Everett, Framingham, Holyoke, Longmeadow, Medford, Revere, Somerville and Springfield. According to the AMA, racism “negatively impacts and exacerbates health inequities among historically marginalized communities.”
Apparently, anything that bums someone out is a “public health threat” since it affects their mental health. Well, certainly being poor, living in crappy areas, not having health insurance or having lousy insurance, living in areas infested with gangs and drugs, are all going to take a toll on anyone’s health. And despite many blacks living in such lower-income areas (because of racism, of course) and having less money and lousy or no health insurance (because of racism, of course) and being getting lousy medical treatment (because of racism, of course), they blame their lousy health and outcomes on, surprise, racism.
One prominent example cited features statistics seeming to show that blacks and Hispanics are more vulnerable to COVID-19 and die from it in greater numbers than other ethnic groups (meaning whites of course). The source of this particular analysis comes from, yes, The New York Times, that bastion of reliable, unbiased and fair “journalism.” Their analysis shows that blacks and Hispanics are three times more likely to catch the virus, and twice as likely to die from it. Another analysis, the largest of its kind apparently, found blacks in the US and UK are only twice as likely to get the virus.
Racism is the reason, of course, and not biology, because blacks have health conditions that make them statistically more vulnerable to infectious diseases generally. “But that’s not simply genetics; it’s access to care, fresh food, and exposure to dangerous environments.” As the above article states:
“We have to make sure that people understand that race is not biology,” Dr. Camara Jones, an epidemiologist and physician with affiliations at Morehouse, Emory, and Harvard universities, previously told Business Insider. “This false narrative of biologically-based differences in the races? It has been debunked.”
Has it? Well, blacks are black and whites are white. That seems to be a biological difference. Blacks disproportionately ascend to the heights of sports, such as basketball, football, track and field, etc., etc., despite racism. That seems to be a biological difference. Blacks constantly moan about their special type of kinky hair, which we cannot dislike no matter how looney and off-putting it is. That seems to be a biological difference. Many black men cannot shave because of some medical situation peculiar to black men. That seems like a biological difference.
At least one study shows that blacks have higher bone density mass than whites, leading to fewer bone fractures. https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/88/2/642/2845134. Another study showed that biological differences between black and white individuals with breast cancer were linked to genetic ancestry, which appears to be a biological difference as the author states. https://www.healio.com/news/hematology-oncology/20170504/biological-differences-between-black-white-individuals-with-breast-cancer-linked-to-genetic-ancestry.
Yet another study concluded that “[t]he new evidence reviewed here points to some genetic component in Black–White differences in mean IQ.” https://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/30years/Rushton-Jensen30years.pdf. Sickle cell disease, an inherited disorder of the red blood cells, is much more prevalent among blacks than whites, which seems to be a another biological difference.
One geneticist has noted that:
“Analysis of DNA allows us to measure with some precision the genetic distance between different populations of human beings. By this criterion, Caucasians and Asians are relatively similar, whereas Asians and Africans are somewhat more different. The differences between the groups are small – but they are real.”
https://www.amacad.org/publication/unequal-nature-geneticists-perspective-human-differences.
So it simply is not accurate to say that there are no biological differences between blacks and whites. There are many in fact. Those who maintain otherwise are using a politically correct advocacy narrative, not a science-driven one. It is far easier to maintain the narrative that racism is the cause of all the woes that have befallen blacks if you can eliminate biology as a factor, but you simply cannot and be taken seriously.
Nevertheless, in the interests of political correctness, the obvious solution to appease the BLM crowd and white consciences is to build nice new houses in nice neighborhoods (or give them ours) for blacks far from nasty environments, give them all nice comfortable well-paying jobs with 100% paid for excellent healthcare and other lovely perks (job qualifications don’t matter because they are, of course, inherently racist and created by white supremacists), give their kids a good education (meaning having black teachers teach them all about the sins of America pursuant to the 1619 Project, which is the new K-12 gospel), send them all to HWCs (“Historically White Colleges” for free (or pay their student loans off if they’ve already been), graduate school too, and pay them each a reparations stipend of, say for a starting point, $50,000/year in perpetuity beginning at age 18 (more if they can document having slave ancestors).
We also have to eliminate law enforcement entirely, send all whites (and those Asians, who don’t like blacks at all) to reeducation camps, commandeer all white property (because it all comes from our white supremacy and systemic racism) and distribute it according to social justice principles (whatever the heck those are). Bernie and Liz and the “Squad” will certainly shepherd this approach through Congress and Kamala Harris will surely put a pen in doddering Joe Biden’s hand and help him sign it. That should take care of everything. The rest of us? Well, there’s a nice dumpster down the street for rent.