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applegrove

(118,020 posts)
Thu Jan 14, 2016, 07:43 PM Jan 2016

Racism is killing all of us, even the racists

Racism is killing all of us, even the racists

by 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 doesn’t prove that racial prejudice causes premature death. But researchers suggest that racism can weaken a community’s social resources or social capital. For example, racial tensions may limit a community’s 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
Absolutely, most racist vote republican... TIME TO PANIC Jan 2016 #1
think of all the promise KT2000 Jan 2016 #2
Think of all the waste of the GOP keeping racism alive has done. You nailed it. It is waste. In the applegrove Jan 2016 #3
Amazingly well said. Number23 Jan 2016 #4
thank you KT2000 Jan 2016 #5
+1 Blue_Tires Jan 2016 #6

KT2000

(20,544 posts)
2. think of all the promise
Thu Jan 14, 2016, 09:17 PM
Jan 2016

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
Thu Jan 14, 2016, 09:20 PM
Jan 2016

case of the GOP it is the rich wasting the country.

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