Re: Staggering death rate for pregnant Black women

[Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol@xxxxxxx>]

At 08:43 AM 8/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
>--------------------------------
>Via Workers World News Service
>Reprinted from the Aug. 26, 1999
>issue of Workers World newspaper
>--------------------------------
>
>RACISM IN HEALTH CARE
>
>STAGGERING DEATH RATE FOR PREGNANT BLACK WOMEN
>
>By Monica Moorehead <monica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>"Racism ... needs to be studied if we want to understand health

-- snip

>The factors that make pregnant Black women at high-risk include
>hypertension, diabetes and obesity--which are closely associated with
>malnutrition and poor diet.
>
>The lack of adequate pre-natal care is tied to the increased levels of
>poverty due to President Clinton's eradication of welfare.
>
>Drug and alcohol abuse, as well as exposure to environmental toxins and
>violence, are important factors as well.



How do those factors relate to "racism"?  Are the hypertension, diabetes
and obseity diabolically inflicted by white men?  Do the poor white women
in say, a WV trailer park have better access to pre-natal health care than
poor black women in say, Baltimore?  Are the black women in any any way
forced by white men to do drugs and alcohol?  Are they killed or injured in
any significant numbers by white men?

No?  It seems then that the Workers World News Service tries to score some
easy propaganda point by throwing around buzzwords instead trying to find
real causes and solutions of the problem.

This is btw, why I hate priests and intellectuals of all stripes, left and
right.  All they do is opitating the masses with their chanting.

wojtek