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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Health outcomes have declined for black people since the 1960s.  There are theories why that is true today but no one is considering why health outcomes were better for black people in the 50s than today. This author is also not considering it.[/quote]

Redlining made it more difficult to receive health care, find healthy food options, etc.

Additional current harm. 
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Incorrect.  You need to read up on this. [/quote]

Why do you think health outcomes declined? Please share your sources. 
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/11/magazine/black-mothers-babies-death-maternal-mortality.html[/quote]

So....systemic racism?

[i]For black women in America, an inescapable atmosphere of societal and systemic racism can create a kind of toxic physiological stress, resulting in conditions — including hypertension and pre-eclampsia — that lead directly to higher rates of infant and maternal death. And that societal racism is further expressed in a pervasive, longstanding racial bias in health care — including the dismissal of legitimate concerns and symptoms — that can help explain poor birth outcomes even in the case of black women with the most advantages.[/i][/quote]

It's more nuanced than that. Read the entire article, it's very long. [/quote]

I did read the whole thing.

[i]"There is something structural and much deeper going on in the health system that then expresses itself in poor outcomes and sometimes deaths."
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It all goes back to system racism.

Why do you think health outcomes declined?
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Keep thinking. What changed about racism in the 60s and 70s?[/quote]

If you have a point to make that ties back to the topic, go ahead.

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The cultural revolution. Race riots. People got angry, angrier. And it harmed them, us.  Even to today.[/quote]

Oh OK. So the black people should never have fought for equality. Everything wrong with black communities today can be traced back to speaking up. They should have kept quiet and waited for white people to give them equality and justice?

And WTF does that have to do with racial bias in the medical field? Just threw in a random link for fun? 
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