unconscious racism affect health of minorities

[Tanya Marquette]

Yes, this is in line with my reporting on the significant increase of prostate cancer in Black men

relative to white males, all socioeconomic factors being equal. There is a whole field of study

dealing with medical racism. I often describe the nature of discrimination as unvconscious vs

conscious intentionality. Racism was an intentionally created process that manifested in every

aspect of our society; ie, institutionalized. It is so pervasive that people cannot easily perceive

it if they are not the ones adversely affected. Even amongst those harmed, many do not see

the institutional nature of the problem. Of course, my take is that we all suffer from racism.

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[Kristy Lampe]

It seems like all the “isms” can negatively affect the health of many different groups:
...most definitely ‘racism’
...but also ‘sexism’ (as in why are most drugs tested only on young-ish white males; or why it it that E.R. docs aren’t trained to recognize the different ‘signs’ of heart attacks in women?)
...and even ‘ageism’ (I visited an older friend in rehab after a stroke: she looked much younger than her 64 years, but her roommate looked older than her 68 years: the physical, occupational, and speech therapists pushed my ‘younger’ friend a LOT harder, but would patronize the ‘older’ woman with “there, there, you can rest now”)
... and all the parents who have been ‘fired’ from a pediatric practice for not vaccinating or whose children are pushed out of schools if they don’t agree to give them conventional meds for “ADHD”!

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[Tanya Marquette]

No argument. I would just modify to not that it is racism that was the foundation of the economic wealth of this country and it is

racism that still buoys it up. And it is people of color who still do significantly worse under this structured system that exists here.

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