Posted on 10/15/2019 2:21:23 PM PDT by Zakeet
A New Jersey professor suggested on a TV program that racism and President Donald Trump’s policies are responsible for black female obesity.
Rutgers University women’s and gender studies professor Brittney Cooper made the argument during an appearance on “Black Women OWN the Conversation” on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
"I hate when people talk about Black women being obese," Cooper said on the program. "I hate it because it becomes a way to blame us for a set of conditions that we didn’t create."
"We are living in the Trump era," the professor said. "And look, those policies kill our people. You can't get access to good health care, good insurance."
Cooper said that research points to black women losing less weight and at a slower rate than do white women, claiming that public health practitioners tie increased stress to a change in metabolism.
"It's literally that the racism that you're experiencing and the struggle to make ends meet actually means the diet don't [sic] work for you the same," she adds.
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If it hadn’t been for Trump Simone Biles might have made a name for herself.
What a buffoon!
Honey, you should stop ripping off the University and your students. Resign your job. You don’t have the intelligence God gave carrots.
These people are certifiable. The more of this type of nonsense that keeps being spewed, the better.
Instead of cutting the carbs, maybe we ought to cut the food stamps.
I personally know a black woman who has a masters degree, works a 6 figure job, is over 40 and fit. Not model thin but rather healthy fit.
If she can maintain her weight, why can’t some other black woman?
And if she can do it during the Trump presidency, why not other black women?
I comes down to choices.... period.
1964 Civil Rights Act and the welfare and food stamps that went along with it.
So that woman got as big as a barn in the 3 years of Trump’s presidency? Can we find a photo of her during the happy days of King Barack I? Inquiring minds want to know.
SO, the portly women in west Africa hold their 45 years of genetic failings and carbohydrate abuse solely on President Trump????
Is he responsible for their diabetes as well?
SO, the portly women in west Africa hold their 45 years of genetic failings and carbohydrate abuse solely on President Trump????
Is he responsible for their diabetes as well?
Sounds kinda far fetched, here in America too!
“women’s and gender studies professor”
Fat, Drunk and lesbian is no way to go thu life.
They were trans.
With professors like this, who needs idiots?
So Professor Ghettopotamus is blaming Trump (and me as a Trump supporter) because she’s a morbidly obese slob who eats too much?!?
Unbelievable..........
“Rutgers University women’s and gender studies professor...”
There’s your problem, right there.
Yes. Personally, I am blaming my excess weight on 0bama. But I have less excess weight than she does, or many of the obese black women she mentions.
So I guess Trump is more successful at this.
/s Sorry, there’s no logic to what she said (nor to what I said!!).
Whoa, mind blown. They were skinnier before Trump. You think it’s the jobs? More money for food and stuff?
The Democrats should ban all plastic silverware.
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