Re: [Marxism] "What kind of card is race?"

[Andy <esquincle@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That example is included in the PNHP slide set and I've used it when
speaking about health care.  A few others (though there a many many
more):

Black dialysis patients, according to a NEJM study, are appropriately
referred for consideration of kidney transplant 90% of the time
compared with 98% for whites.  Of those appropriate for transplant, 52%
of whites received one -- 17% of Blacks.

The ratio of Black to white infant mortality grew by 25% 1980 to 2000.
The percent of African American babies dying before the age of 1 year
has grown steadily since the late 1940s, falling briefly in the late
1960s and early 1970s, but overall climbing from about 1.6:1 in 1948 to
about 2.5:1 in 2001.

When mortality Black vs. white was examined, Satcher and others
estimated a gap such that there are 83,570 excess Black deaths yearly,
largely African American men (using 2002 data.)  Looking back
statistically they showed that "mortality disparities have displayed a
remarkably flat line over four decades."



On Apr 25, 2006, at 5:27 AM, Fred Feldman wrote:

> Very worthwhile article from Counterpunch which I reprint here down to
> a
> very interesting (and new to me) statistic on job discrimination --
> that
> whites with a criminal records are m likely to be called back for
> interviews than Blacks without criminal records, given the same
> qualifications. Of course, the criminal justice system is making sure
> that there are fewer Blacks without criminal records.
>
> Fred Feldman


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