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| Topic | slavery and jim crow still impact us today |
| Saloonist 04/27/17 12:23:06 AM #22: | Balrog0 posted... Right, but like I literally just said there are many rural communities that perform better than the black belt... Including rural southern communities, and also majority minority urban areas. So I'm saying again, engage the data and narrative I posted instead of imagining how it might be wrong without looking at it You seem to be failing to comprehend the claim I'm making. I'm not talking about black communities compared to any other racial community. I'm talking solely about comparisons within the black community. The point I'm making is that most black people throughout the US have suffered from slavery. So if you want to say that health outcomes are the result of slavery then you can't just look at the black belt and say "Those people suffered slavery and that is the causal reason for the terrible health outcomes of people in the black rural south. Black people in Philly and Cleveland also suffered both slavery and many suffered Jim Crow as well, and presumably have better outcomes than black people in the rural south. So the evidence of slavery alone, without any more nuance is insufficient to support the claim being made. --- BasileosPetros, KhanofKhans, CokeZero, and many more ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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