I am sick and tired of people saying America discriminates against Blacks. It’s absolutely not true. Why, the ancestors of most Blacks in America were given free passage from Africa to America, for chrissakes. I’ll bet none of the white immigrants got a free ticket on whatever ship or boat they took to get to America. And then when the blacks got here we provided them with lifetime employment, free meals and even a rudimentary form of social security. White men even offered a full service sexual education to many of those fortunate Black women. What a deal.
And this impressive history of special treatment for Black Americans continues to this day:
Black hospital patients are far less likely to survive cardiac arrest than white patients, new research shows.
And the reason in many cases is that black patients usually go to the hospitals that do the poorest job resuscitating patients.
Just 25.2 percent of black patients who suffered cardiac arrest while they were hospitalized left the hospital alive, according to a study published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association. That compares with 37.4 percent of white patients who survived — a difference of 48 percent.
“That’s huge — larger than any other survival gap by race,” said Paul Chan, a researcher at St. Luke’s Hospital who led the national study. “And it’s poignant because the white survival rate wasn’t very high either.”
Many studies have found racial disparities in the quality of health care. Black and Hispanic preschoolers are less likely to receive routine asthma medications than white children. Minority residents of nursing homes are less likely to get glasses or hearing aids than white residents. Minority women wait twice as long as white women for follow-up tests after an abnormal mammogram.
Hell, one of “them” was elected as President even though he may have been born in Kenya and might be a secret Muslim terrorist. Frankly, I don’t know what more white people can do to make Black people happy. We already let them play on all our professional sports teams. We let Tiger Woods win all those golf tournaments. We let our kids dance to rap music. We televised Michael Jackson’s funeral. We gave Oprah a billion dollar media empire. What more do they want from us, anyway?
