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Mahoganyanais
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Username: Mahoganyanais
Post Number: 298
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 10:11 am: | 
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Study Links Discrimination, Blacks' Health
By Rob Stein
When Sandi Stokes waits for lunch at the sandwich shop near her office in downtown Washington, she notices the counter worker often assumes the white person next to her was there first.
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 2585
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 08:19 am: |
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Mah,
I interpret this to mean there are too few GOOD Black health care professional and researchers.
As long as Blacks depend primarily upon Whites/others to help cure them, we are going to stay SICK! |
Anunaki3600
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Username: Anunaki3600
Post Number: 8
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 08:42 am: |
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This is the exact reason why I support and advocate AA's to shop, eat,etc. and spend their hard earned dollars at Black owned businesses where they will be treated with respect. Why spend your money or support racist businesses???? I do notice that AA's like to support White owned businesses because many of us think that they have better products or services. Bring your own sandwiches to work for lunch instead of getting third rate service from some fascist. Fast during lunch time and donate your lunch money instead of supporting some KKK business man. In L.A. we burnt these type of businesses during the riots. If you happen to support these types of businesses then you deserve the heart problems, high blood pressure, and every other heartache that comes with it. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 2591
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 08:44 am: |
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Anunaki3600,
BRAVO! And fight the POWER!
Seriously. I couldn't agree with you more! |
Anunaki3600
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Username: Anunaki3600
Post Number: 9
Registered: 04-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 09:18 am: |
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I have worked as a health researcher for the last fifteen years and have researched similar findings or read similar reports. Black's are the standard for comparison for almost every health indicator. We are in deep doo doo. Blacks are five times more likely than Whites to......Blacks are three times more likely than Hispanics to.......We do have excellent AA's in the medical research field but are mostly getting grants for AIDS/HIV research at the moment |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 2610
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 07, 2005 - 05:45 am: |
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Anunaki,
I asserted there are too few Dr’s and PhD’s in health care and research. Do you believe this to be true?
What and do you declare to be the most acute and prominent problems within your field of employ?
It find it hard to imagine there’s’ TOO much money going into AID/HIV research. Of course, I’d hardly argue the contrary versus someone of your background.
But it seems the enormity/urgency of HIV warrants disproportionate attention.
Still. I’d appreciate you opinions on issues of research, particularly with respect to how/where monies go, the criteria upon which its allocated, the politics and social environs that affects such, etc.
Because it’s seems very difficult for must of us who aren’t in any professional/managerial position in the healthcare sector to understand the decision making apparatus that fuels medical procedures, examinations, drugs, treatment, etc.
For example, I recall reading that recently there was being released on the market an asthma drug that was quite literally KILLING Black people.
I don’t know all the particulars, or even if its true.
But if it is at least partially so, THAT would appear to me to be something BLACK health researchers, physicians, nurses, hospital administrator should be especially ashamed of...particularly because Blacks suffer from asthma at rates that GREATLY exceed others.
How does such a calamity occur? And who’s fault is it? |
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