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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRacism is killing all of us, even the racists
Racism is killing all of us, even the racistsby Vann R. Newkirk II at the Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/14/1469875/-Racism-is-killing-all-of-us-even-the-racists
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Racial prejudice affects community health significantly even after controlling for individual- and community-level socioeconomic status, such as poverty, level of education, and racial composition, study author YeonJin Lee of the University of Pennsylvania, told Healthline.
The study doesnt prove that racial prejudice causes premature death. But researchers suggest that racism can weaken a communitys social resources or social capital. For example, racial tensions may limit a communitys ability to come together and advocate for policies and services that promote health.
Low levels of prejudice are associated with greater trust and diminished threat at the neighborhood level, Lee said, [while] high levels of prejudice likely discourage residents from developing social capital with their neighbors, given reduced levels of trust and mutual reciprocity.
Social capital, defined as the degree to which community decisions are marked by reciprocity and increase in the common good, has been found to be a key factor in public health and mortality. Income inequality also degrades social capital, and through this mechanism it degrades health independently of income itself.
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Racism is killing all of us, even the racists (Original Post)
applegrove
Jan 2016
OP
TIME TO PANIC
(1,894 posts)1. Absolutely, most racist vote republican...
and republican policies kill.
KT2000
(20,544 posts)2. think of all the promise
that has been denied to all of us because of racism and sexism. Truly talented people have been washed out of society and among them are people who could have eventually had answers to our most vexing health problems.
When incompetent white people are hired for positions over competent minorities, we all pay the price for racism.
Also - we cannot say that because a few make it through then all should be able to - that is just not true.
applegrove
(118,020 posts)3. Think of all the waste of the GOP keeping racism alive has done. You nailed it. It is waste. In the
case of the GOP it is the rich wasting the country.
Number23
(24,544 posts)4. Amazingly well said.