unfortunately, it’s often the case that broke white people also have privileges over middle class and wealthy Black people.
you can be a congress person, a lawyer, a ceo - and get pulled over again and again because you’re Black and driving “too nice a car”… and that’s just the easiest, most obvious example
No, it’s not; but I bet you the people bitching about Oprah right now are very ‘White and American’, hence they are the focal point of Harriot’s piece.
Call me stupid, but my gut reaction to this video was (to myself) “Go hug those kids. Hug 'em tight, and take the bullet if you have to.” I wish I had been there.
We have discussed systemic racism previously, but I would submit this as, at least in my field, pretty definitive proof. We have known for a very long time that black kids do more poorly than white kids post surgery, but have written it off as “they must have been sicker to begin with.” This study looked at only previously healthy kids, mostly undergoing surgery for orthopedic injuries or appendectomies, and found that black kids did significantly worse when all the apparent confounders were accounted for. Large enough (>170k patients) to tease out differences even in pretty damned uncommon complications. 23 black children vs 13 white kids died within 30 days of surgery. I feel a little sick after reading this. Coming on the heels of the AAP finally apologizing for it’s own racist past, at least recognition of our problem is coming. The most damning part of the paper was the finding that the racial differences largely went away when black kids were cared for by black medical professionals. Let that sink in for a moment. I did. 
More accessible review here
The Willie Horton ads of 1988 didn’t just torpedo the Dukakis campaign, they caused a whole generation of elected officials to enact new “Cover Your Ass” policies that effectively ended the possibility of parole for most felons no matter how hard those felons worked to better themselves behind bars.
This time the Republicans are dropping the dog whistle and picking up a bullhorn.
How have these tweets not been deleted and the account banned? That’s straight up racism.
Plus they aren’t even talking about convicted felons anymore, they’re talking about defendants who were approved for release on bail by a trial judge.
But it’s totally cool when Trump sends his well-wishes to a woman accused of raping and trafficking minors because “innocent until proven guilty,” right?
This might be of interest, the Ella Baker center for human rights has a podcast!
Let’s get someone saying those things on tv today, stat.
First, do no harm
Key finding (in my mind) from the paper, not reported in The Guardian article that I could see:
“Researchers found that systemic institutional racism within healthcare is mostly perpetuated by non-Black medical professionals, as they discovered no mortality risks for white babies born to Black doctors.”
Read that again. Yup, it’s saying Black doctors treat White babies as well as Black babies, White (well, non-Black) doctors treat Black babies significantly less well than they do White babies. Before any #notallwhites dudes come for this article, for anyone who does not know, I am a White pediatrician. This article hits me harder than it could possibly hit most (other than Black parents who have lost a baby, of course.) Denial of a problem does not make it go away. Systemic racism is a thing, it is real, and we White folks need to fix it.
(I posted the original article upthread, but here is the link:
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/early/2020/07/16/peds.2019-4113.full.pdf)
fucking hell…
