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_PM_ME_YOUR_FORESKIN t1_j4p36j8 wrote

Reply to comment by fffyhhiurfgghh in New study shows: Black Adults Experienced Early Signs of Brain Aging Faster Than Other Ethnic Minority Groups by PaulHasselbaink

100%.

I feel like mentioning “poverty” without mentioning 300 years of forced illiteracy, not being able to own land, having your children sold away from you, indentured servitude after enslavement, reconstruction, lynching, segregated schools, property tax based school funding, redlining, racist loan decisions, or any one of the myriad poverty inducing structures built against Black folks since 1619 fails to state it well enough. You don’t have to cite every point but “poverty” stated as if it’s in a vacuum irks me. And racism will continue as long as we keep it obscured instead of stating it explicitly.

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Commercial_Emu_9921 t1_j4qcm83 wrote

What about other migrants from Asian countries who came to America with nothing? How come they are doing FAR better? What about Jewish people who came straight from the concentration camps? How come they are doing better?

You hypothesis is obviously completely wrong.

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Captain-PlantIt t1_j4rv3tr wrote

Those groups are not being discriminated against the same way. They are not systematically denied housing and jobs.

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