There’s some truth to his statement as far as the numbers go and perhaps some correction is needed. Obviously, you wouldn’t want to entirely remove the stats of African American women, as that would be blatantly racist, but it seems some for of compromise is warranted.
Perhaps counting only half of them? or perhaps slightly more than half, say 6/10ths
NGL, you had me going in the first half
This is gold satire.
We’re not 52nd in the nation in education for nothing!
Perhaps counting only half of them? or perhaps slightly more than half, say 6/10ths
Very strong scientific and historical basis for going with 3/5ths. But if some stats make America look bad, I think 0/3rds would fix it, and fire the agency lead if they don’t go with 0/5ths of a person for black women. America was great when it was 3/5ths, and so 0/5ths is needed immediately to make America great again before my 3rd term election.
Ah, I have a modest proposal. Let’s count 60% of maternal deaths from black women. /s
A government can’t possibly serve the whole population. /s
We’ll call it the…60% Compromise. Got a nice ring to it.
With gerrymandering that number is often much lower these days. We’ve ended up with even worse than the 3/5
“Our maternal death rates are only bad because of inherent racism in our medical industry”
Damn there really isn’t even a quiet part anymore is there
On my fuck…Dude seriously…you said admitted your racist ass racist bias, what a monster.
May 20, 2022
“For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality”
🤦
so close…
And our mass shooting events are pretty low when you don’t count bigoted white men.
Here’s an article about it that can actually be read.
He continued: “Now, I say that not to minimize the issue but to focus the issue as to where it would be. For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality.”
Maybe you should look into that, Senator.
Oh, it’s probably just genetic, just like how black and Hispanic men are uniquely genetically qualified to labor in the fields … /S
This is from 3 years ago.
Funniest headline The Onion could have ever come up with!!!
Maybe the medicaid cuts will make the black women count rise faster than the white women count, and that will make it ok :(
In an interview with Politico, the following words came out of Cassidy’s mouth: “About a third of our population is African American; African Americans have a higher incidence of maternal mortality. So, if you correct our population for race, we’re not as much of an outlier as it’d otherwise appear. Now, I say that not to minimize the issue but to focus the issue as to where it would be. For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality.”
Scum POS. I’m sure he will start fixing the issue instead contributing to it.
I think he’s pointing out that this is a federal race-connected issue, not a local state issue. As in other states have similar stats if you group the numbers by race.
If that is correct, that’s a fair assessment. He should obviously work with the rest of Congress to solve that national issue, though, and he should really spearhead it if it affects his state more.
Still a greater Louisiana problem
Overall, according to Louisiana’s Department of Health, “four black mothers die for every white mother” in the state. It outpaces a three-to-one ratio nationwide, which is already the worst in the developed world, Politico reported.
https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-la-outlier-maternal-death-rate-skewed-black-women-2022-5
If only states were capable of doing things to improve the lives of their residents above what the nation as a whole can do. Clearly it’s impossible. Woe be this poor powerless state politician.
Your justification doesn’t hold within its own logic. And doesn’t address how blatantly racist the statement itself is.
Solving it in his state is certainly a good way of spearheading a national solution.
As for you considering the statement racist: I was expecting a lot worse based on the headline. I don’t think grouping by race when looking at health statistics is inherently racist. Race can be relevant to health outcomes, among other reasons due to racism, and so one should be allowed to discuss that.
Deciding to ignore the problem because it predominantly affects a certain race is racist, but that wasn’t what was stated in the quote earlier in this thread, despite the headline suggesting it was.
Except adjusting for race is not appropriate. They are a significant portion of his constituent population. It may help explain a factor as to why it’s higher in his state. But I’ll bet being in a red state is also a factor given things like doctors fleeing, budget cuts, etc.
Additionally, such stats are prone to reflecting biases in the system rather than actual medically relevant information. Do black women have worse outcomes because of biological reasons, or because they are treated worse. This is one of those stats you have to be careful with because a nontrivial amount of time, it’s damn near proof of racism.
It’s appropriate if you follow up with investigations for the reasons that is happening and look for solutions to correct that. Other than, “Have you tried not being poor?” of course.
Correct, I just don’t feel like pretending that that’s a thing they might do and that it isn’t the racism causing the problem.
So you’re going to do something to lower the maternal death rate for black women, right?
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What an inbred donkey.
hey, donkeys are noble creatures that bond with their human and can even emotionally reciprocate.
this thing is a husk of a human being stuffed with fascist fecal matter.
The quiet part out loud.
After midterms, especially if the republicans manage to cheat enough to still gain seats, some of them will go “N****r, n****r, n****r!” on live television, then racists will go “We’re so fucking back!”, then work on how to strip black Americans of their human rights with the help of Clarence Thomas.
