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I'm glad you had a few chuckles CM55. Maybe I'm mad, but I think most of us here are politically conservative, and most conservatives have "Ice Age Ancestors" that are white males as well as the converse, and that as far as most African-Americans are concerned we're racists.
This article rebuts the notion, prevalent in the African-American community and re-inforced by the major mainstream media, that African-Americans receive inferior medical care causing them to have increased morbidity and mortality because of a racist society that provides insufficient funding of their health care needs, and a predominantly white and racist medical profession that gives them only second rate care.
Maybe it's been too long since you looked at the major media like the NY Times, CNN, ABC, CBS, and CBS. AFAIK, the last three of them had a weekly segment dealing with the big medical story of the week from the Journal of the American Medical Association or the New England Journal of Medicine, which have an issue almost every week. There have been quite a few stories from those journals that inferred African-Americans received inadequate medical care because of some latent racism on the broadcast evening news.
Don't feel bad, I rarely watch ABC, CBS or NBC either. From 6:00 PM EST, I've been watching Brit Hume on FNC for years now. But you should know what your political enemies are thinking, and that's why I still scan the NY Times. Every once in a while, you'll find stories like this, that slip through the cracks.
As far as racism goes, it's the argument of nature versus nurture, with conservatives mostly saying nature is the predominant force which determines sociological outcomes, and liberals saying it's the lack of nurture, i.e. racism, which predominates.
Since the Great Society and all the programs that followed, I can't think of anything else the "Whites" of this country could do in order to show that they are not racist, but show them the facts.
IMHO, here you have the "paper of record" giving you a new, breaking news "gift horse" that you want to shuffle off out of sight, when it deserves the widest dissemination.
The magazine Science is not intended for general circulation, but the NY Times is. It's too bad you can't appreciate the import. I shall try a few more times before I surrender regarding science as an appropriate topic on FreeRepublic.com. I regret you are unable to appreciate what is new information. LOL
How is it that OJ Simpson and Madonna were breaking news and a new scientific conclusion isn't. OK, so the jocks like to make fun of the geeks, but that's only until the geeks fire them and tell them to work for someone else.