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How Racism May Cause Black Mothers To Suffer The Death Of Their Infants
NPR ^ | December 20, 2017 | Rhitu Chatterjee and Rebecca Davis

Posted on 12/21/2017 3:30:29 AM PST by C19fan

In February 2009, Samantha Pierce became pregnant with twins. It was a time when things were going really well in her life. She and her husband had recently gotten married. They had good jobs. "I was a kick-ass community organizer," says Pierce, who is African-American and lives in Cleveland. She worked for a nonprofit that fought against predatory lending. The organization was growing, and Pierce had been promoted to management.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: communityorganizer; defundpbsnpr; paidagitator; race; racehustler
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I find it hilarious the "RACISM" article starts with a married couple when the bastard rate in that community is 75%. Sort of like the MSM featuring the lesbian couple who have been together for 40 years celebrate being able to get a marriage certificate. No mention of the much higher prevalence of behaviors that cause risker pregnancy in that community.
1 posted on 12/21/2017 3:30:30 AM PST by C19fan
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>>They had good jobs. “I was a kick-ass community organizer,” says Pierce

Oooookaaaaaaayyyyyyyy...


2 posted on 12/21/2017 3:32:14 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: C19fan

The real way racism effects your attitude is when the Democrat propagandists convince you to blame another race for all your troubles...usually on the dubious grounds of past overt racism commited by Democrats.


3 posted on 12/21/2017 3:41:35 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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If President Trump has not looked in to defunding npr...he should. They are no different than any other lib media outlet IMO AND they have bragged in the past about not needing Fed assistance.


4 posted on 12/21/2017 3:44:40 AM PST by V_TWIN (oks like)
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To: C19fan

What sort of racism leads to the rate of abortion among blacks? Six percent of the population; 35 percent of all abortions. Don’t tell me it’s down to global warming.


5 posted on 12/21/2017 3:53:29 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: C19fan

NPR, the R standing for Race pimps of the worst kind.

NPR, National Pimps of Race


6 posted on 12/21/2017 4:08:14 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS...)
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To: C19fan

I don’t expect sanity from npr. I do expect them to look for creative ways to blame Whitey for all their self-inflicted pathologies.


7 posted on 12/21/2017 4:09:20 AM PST by I want the USA back (Liberalism, like insanity, is the denial of reality.)
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This entire article is a load of tripe. In fact, looking at “Africans” (as if all blacks only come from Africa and not the middle-east) and saying they’re ok - so it must not be genetics is outright hubris. It’s been almost 200 years since the civil war which is plenty of time for genetic drift. Let’s not even get into the argument of the genetics of which blacks were sold as slaves and which ones did the selling.
Her water broke early while she was under total care and following the system which acted in an unracial manner. You can’t, therefore, blame THE SYSTEM as racist because your numbers are different than white women - how do they compare against hispanic and asian women? Have you considered the cultural differences where drug use (especially among kick-ass community organizers like Obama) is the norm?!

No no... it’s RACISS!


8 posted on 12/21/2017 4:11:12 AM PST by Skywise
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Auction them off. NPR dates back to the days when the average Joe could pull in about a half dozen stations on their radio and public television back to a day when they could pull in three other television stations.

Then, there is this gem embedded into the article:

Now, there is growing consensus that racial discrimination experienced by black mothers during their lifetime makes them less likely to carry their babies to full term.

To which I must ask

What racial discriminaton?

Because some yahoo yelled the N-word at them when they were driving through a certain neighborhood in Cleveland about eight years ago? I got called a cracker because I took a shortcut home from a certain black suburb in Pittsburgh at about the same time. I didn't even consider it discrimination, just some yahoo blowing off steam.

9 posted on 12/21/2017 4:27:00 AM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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Long article saying racism kills black babies b/c discrimination as in being called the n-word or shadowed in stores causes stress in black wimmins. That makes stress hormones which makes black woman to give premature birth. This happens less with Whitey.

Also only in the USA cuz..slavery

Got it?


10 posted on 12/21/2017 4:27:35 AM PST by Gasshog (When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles scream and shout!)
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as if all blacks only come from Africa and not the middle-east

Blacks in the middle east are there for the same reason they are in the US: immigration and the slave trade. Most middle easterners are Caucasians.

11 posted on 12/21/2017 4:49:53 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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"Black babies in the United States die at just over two times the rate of white babies in the first year of their life," says Arthur James, an OB-GYN at Wexner Medical Center at Ohio State University in Columbus. According to the most recent data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for every 1,000 live births, 4.8 white infants die in the first year of life. For black babies, that number is 11.7.

That whole article ignores the elephant in the room.

Women are warned not to smoke during pregnancy because it raises the risk of fetal loss, premature birth, and low birth rate, all factors which combine to create a high infant mortality rate. Abortion has the same effect on subsequent pregnancies, and the more abortions a woman has, the less likely she will be to carry a subsequent infant to term. In some cases, women become unable to conceive following abortion. While women can quit smoking, they cannot undo the damage to their reproductive systems caused by abortion.

That article is correct about racism being the cause of high infant mortality rates, but not in the nebulous way it blathers on about. Rather, it is a very specific mechanism: racist leftists target black women for abortion and place abortion mills disproportionately in black neighborhoods. Eugenicists have targeted the black population for over a century. And then these same leftists who want to get rid of black people use fear to get them to vote for them, ironically using the claim that Republicans are racist (in a very nebulous way, since no actual racist policy exists in the Republican platform) to secure their votes.

I would like to see abortion rates compared to infant mortality rates across all demographic groups--I think that the rates would correlate very well.

12 posted on 12/21/2017 5:03:54 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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""I was a kick-ass community organizer""

I see the problem immediately. She didn't have a job.
 

13 posted on 12/21/2017 5:13:13 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (CNN is fake news.)
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To: a fool in paradise

She was a non-com in the Imaginary Grievance Army, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Victim Industrial Complex.


14 posted on 12/21/2017 5:18:42 AM PST by IronJack (A)
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Her total life is lived as a racist

She is living breathing ameritrash


15 posted on 12/21/2017 5:20:52 AM PST by Thibodeaux (2018 is looking good)
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To: exDemMom

With preemies, statistically, black girls are the heartiest, followed by black boys. I believe that Asian girls are next and it goes on down by sex and ethnicity until you get to “wimpy white boys” at the bottom.

At least, that’s what I was told by a doc I knew while I was visiting my preemie son in the intensive care nursery. Premature white males struggle the most.

For a group with the heartiest babies to have a higher infant mortality rate is shocking: what is going on when they get home from the hospital?


16 posted on 12/21/2017 5:27:13 AM PST by NorthstarMom
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I’d be more concerned over the Planned Parenthood targeting of black babies.


17 posted on 12/21/2017 5:30:44 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: exDemMom

Bingo. And damage to the reproductive system from STDs may be a factor as well.


18 posted on 12/21/2017 5:40:51 AM PST by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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When they start working to combat the cultural poison inside their own community, and do something internally about the problems that cause a black child to be shot twice by the time he is five years old, then I will take things like this seriously. Until then, I won't.
19 posted on 12/21/2017 5:42:32 AM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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How does one enter the kick-ass community organizer career field?


20 posted on 12/21/2017 6:04:49 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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