A whole thread of overt racism by freakrepublickers. It's bad. They're unhinged.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2154655/posts#comment

[geckosfeet]

1. Yeah. Like I'll click that. I'm taking your word for it. eom

[orleans]

2. sorry--i'm not going there. i, too, will take your word for it. however,

they have ALWAYS been unhinged.

[Shiver]

3. "Globall warming"?

:rofl:

[LynnTheDem]

4. Republics; they're ignorant; they're mean-spirited; they're racist.

And you're surprised how?

[Sarah Ibarruri]

5. Be kind. How else could the brainless GOPers feel good about themselves if not by having scapegoats

They would have to look themselves in the mirror and see another braindead GW Bush.

[WyoHiker]

6. Sorry. I couldn't finish it.

I need to maintain my diet.

[Yukari Yakumo]

7. I'm going in... I'll post what I find... {nt}

[Yukari Yakumo]

9. Results...

Black women in the U.S. appear to be shrinking
Chicago Tribune ^ | December 25, 2008 | Tom Hundley

Posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 5:47:19 PM by CE2949BB

Call her The Incredible Shrinking African-American Woman.

In an age when the adult populations of most industrialized nations have grown significantly taller, the average height of black women in the U.S. has been receding, beginning with those born in the late 1960s.

The difference in stature between white women and black women has now stretched to three-quarters of an inch and appears to be increasing, according to newly released data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) conducted by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The main culprit appears to be diet.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Science; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: science

1 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 5:47:19 PM by CE2949BB
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Black women in the U.S. appear to be shrinking

Not Oprah.
2 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 5:48:20 PM by Mr. Mojo
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***

They got a long way to go.
3 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 5:49:08 PM by the invisib1e hand (revolution is in the air.)
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The reason this matters, according to Komlos, is because "height is a very good overall indicator of how well the human organism thrives in its socioeconomic environment."

Voting Democrat will shrink you! Now that's a slogan!
4 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 5:49:24 PM by SolidWood (Sarah Palin - Everything that is Sweetness and Light!)
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The main culprit appears to be diet.

women and minorities hit hardest?
5 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 5:49:48 PM by the invisib1e hand (revolution is in the air.)
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GMTA.

She’s growing....horizontally.....

6 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 5:49:49 PM by ButThreeLeftsDo (MERRY CHRISTMAS!!)
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"height is a very good overall indicator of how well the human organism thrives in its socioeconomic environment."

Ah, crap!
7 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 5:50:31 PM by CE2949BB (MERRY CHRISTMAS!)
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The width to height ratio is on the increase however.

8 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 5:51:58 PM by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Save America......... put out lots of wafarin (it's working))
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The main culprit is diet? Are these people serious?

Nobody is going hungry in this country due to lack of gov’t and society efforts. There are food stamps and subisdies for hte poor, if they are hinting that blacks are disproportionately poor.

Do some people make poor food and nutritional choices? Yes. Is that the fault of society or government, or prove that we are racist somehow because a new generation of black females is shorter???????

9 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 5:55:20 PM by Dilbert San Diego
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To: CE2949BB

Diet? I would have suspected George Bush or “globall warming” to be causing it.

10 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 5:57:28 PM by FlingWingFlyer (For more information on America's "new direction" read The Road to Serfdom. by Friedrich A. Hayek.)
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Obesity in girls causes early puberty, which stops the bones from growing sooner than they would normally.

11 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 5:57:28 PM by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but he will give us the shaft.)
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“Black females were hardest hit:”

12 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 5:59:26 PM by maggief
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I’ve heard of height being associated with diet. I don’t know if it is true but I’ve read in many different sources that improved nutrition was the reason Europeans became taller. They say antique suits of armor are generally way to short to be worn by modern people there.

13 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 6:00:39 PM by A knight without armor
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High caloric intake from an unhealthy diet fuels an early growth spurt among black children, plus it speeds the onset of puberty, especially for black girls, who now begin menstruating 81/2 months ahead of white girls. This early onset of puberty reduces the duration of the critical pre-adolescent growth spurt, resulting in a lower adult height.

Tyg. Obesity + other cultural factors = earlier puberty = lower adult height.

This sort of analysis doesn't work anecdotally, of course. I'm 2" shorter than my mother, and my teenage daughter is 2-1/2" short than I am. On the other hand, my mother was 3" shorter than her older sister, whose daughter (my cousin) was 3" taller than her mother, and whose daughter is 3" taller than HER mother (6'1"). Partly it depends on whom you marry.
14 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 6:01:25 PM by Tax-chick ("And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day." (Is. 2)
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15 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 6:02:10 PM by TonyStark
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jat but maybe they are marrying shorter men which would give their children a least a 50% chance of being short
16 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 6:03:42 PM by CindyDawg (Lord, please bless America)
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THere have been a number of simply pitiful black women in congress as of late. Several have made spectacles of themselves and I think they have made themselves irrelevant.

17 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 6:08:38 PM by i_dont_chat
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Black females were hardest hit: Almost 80 percent of black females are overweight or obese, compared with 62 percent of the total female population, according to the CDC.

The problem develops early. Twenty-one percent of black females ages 2 to 19 are overweight or obese, compared with 12 percent of white girls.

Of course, the welfare state has NOTHING to do with
18 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 6:23:39 PM by Popman (Dont worry Barney Frank has your ass-ets covered!!!)
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"Several have made spectacles of themselves and I think they have made themselves irrelevant."

Proving themselves to be complete idiots.
19 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 6:24:01 PM by blam
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The left will use it as falsified evidence that we need to give them more power — just like feminists invented the lie that girls were being overlooked in school, got a bunch of programs passed/financed, had the curriculum and pedagogy significantly overhauled to shine more light on girls — all to find out after the fact that they'd invented the study and it was actually boys that were being overlooked (thus the lower grades, higher dropout rates, and lower college enrollment among boys).
20 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 6:30:17 PM by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Abortion has become little more than the New Left's execution of political prisoners.)
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Black females were hardest hit: Almost 80 percent of black females are overweight or obese, compared with 62 percent of the total female population, according to the CDC.
The problem develops early. Twenty-one percent of black females ages 2 to 19 are overweight or obese, compared with 12 percent of white girls.

Of course, the welfare state has NOTHING to do with

Yeah, I always wonder when the media starts going on and on about “Americas” obesity problem if its actually “our” problem or if its a “black” problem.

21 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 7:10:52 PM by annelizly
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Yeah, I always wonder when the media starts going on and on about “Americas” obesity problem if its actually “our” problem or if its a “black” problem.

I'd love to see the study on women on welfare with obesity issues. Throw out the racial factor and dollars to donuts it's not a race factor at all, it's a welfare problem.

But of course the guilty liberal media doesn't have any issue with obese white women on welfare.
22 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 7:20:24 PM by Popman (Dont worry Barney Frank has your ass-ets covered!!!)
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23 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 7:40:00 PM by JoeProBono (I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma)
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I would say that is the least of their problems.

24 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 7:42:05 PM by nobama08
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3/4 of an inch is not even statistically significant.

25 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 8:07:01 PM by Havisham
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She’s growing....horizontally.....

Perhaps gaining in the volume category?

26 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 8:08:00 PM by sobieski
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How about illegetimate daughtes of single parent homes who become mothers in their teen years?

27 posted on Friday, December 26, 2008 8:08:54 PM by sobieski
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[rurallib]

8. I made it through 3 posts

fucking pukes.

[dweller]

10. SSDD... n/t

dp

[flvegan]

11. Show of hands: who is surprised?