Diversity may be fatal, says new government health study

Daily Caller ^ | 1:42 AM 10/27/2012 | Neil Munro

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Diversity may be killing older African-Americans and Hispanics, according to a new peer-reviewed study published in the America Journal of Public Health, which shows that people suffer less cancer and heart disease when they live among their racial or ethnic peers.

“Living in an ethnically dense neighborhood is beneficial when it comes to heart disease and cancer,” said Kimberly Alvarez, a co-author of the new study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health. Alvarez’s phrase, “ethnically dense,” describes a community in which at least 50 percent of people are from the same ethnic group.

Many progressive groups advocate the use of government to increase diversity in housing, education, health care and other sectors. …

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I call BS on this. Which neighborhood you live in or whether they are your “peeps” has nothing to do with whether you’ll get cancer. Nothing. What an incredibly stupid study.

Ah, but you have to understand the reasoning for it. It means now it's okay for hispanics and blacks to segregate themselves for their health. Whites will still be expected to "diversify".

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Diversity was redefined when libs found out Americans hated racial quotas. The word quota was thrown out and diversity substituted. It’s all a flim-flam by the race industry.

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From the article, regarding blacks, “were 46% less likely to report doctor-diagnosed heart disease and 77% less likely to report cancer than those who lived in an ethnic density of less than 25%...”

Well, as a black person with a PhD and knowing something about studies, blacks, black neighborhoods, and the medical care rec’d by blacks, both with and without money, I’m going to say that blacks in black neighborhoods didn’t have a lot of doctor-diagnosed diseases because they weren’t seeing doctors.

This can be for a variety of reasons - even with medicare (since the sample used people over 65), there are costs related to medical care and some people choose to do without medical care if it will cost them. Some people don’t like to go to doctors. I know from my own and others’ research that blacks will often lie to researchers, especially if the researcher isn’t black.

My own view - if I lived in the ‘Gold Coast’ of DC or another high income black area, that might be one thing, but on the whole, I’d rather live in a diversified, shoot, I’d rather live in a mostly white, professional class neighborhood with its attendant benefits and services.