Infant mortality rate higher for black mothers than any other race 

What is the infant mortality of babies born to parents who were married at the time of conception?

What is “structural racism?” Give me a specific example.

Feels like she was purposefully vague, she never even presented a scenario we could dwell on and that was something I anticipated. All we are left to think about is racism, but could racism really be the culprit here? What would this racism even look like? This is why I wanted some scenario, a demonstration of said racism. It's very hard for me to believe that, at such a scale presented in this video, so many Doctors and people in health care would compromise their careers because they did not like the race of the patient they were taking care of. I think there is more to this than racism.

I loved this. For it's honestly and clarity. This probl3m needs to be addressed with facts and I think this video displayed a piece of that.

I do not think the study said that. It said it was very high compard to non-HIspanic whites. And not better if the Black mother is from higher SES. So, I am pretty sure the highest has been AI/ANs for decades.

I absolutely love this! I wish people recognize that we are all human and deserve equal treatment across the board. A life is a life. People really need to learn to be empathetic.

Possibly high income black women have babies later in life thsn poorer women

I knew surveying was conducted based on regions but now a days it’s based on races?? Where is our education leading us?? Feeling shameful after reading the title.

The comments here clearly illustrate why this is happening to Black Women in America. To live amongst this kind of hate...horrifying.

There is another article titled "Black babies more likely to survive when cared for by black doctors"... really? What doctor cares for the baby? The doctors deliver them and may come in once a day to sign a chart (in order to get that 300 check from insurance)... but the nurses actually care for them. And if you look at the statistics of nurses by race, they are equivalent by the population of each race in the U.S. That being said, the problem is the insanity of forcing feeding everyone this BS.

Nothing about that is bad.

The interview ignored the elephant in the room -- pardon the pun -- black women have the highest rates of obesity which is a good indicator of poor health. Add to that higher rates of STDs, drug use, and being unmarried, why would we not expect higher infant mortality? And not all racial groups have equally healthy diets. As for education not affecting infant mortality like it does with other racial groups, perhaps considering that not all academic majors are equal is in order.

I feel alot of people are not looking at the hole picture. Speaking on one issue in Infant mortality . When there's many.

This was one of the worst scientific reports I have ever seen. They showed one graph and everything else was assumption. First off, why are we only comparing black women to white women? What about Latino, native American, Indian, and Asian women? What were the health factors? What about birth rates in terms of environment? Let's do a study based on urban to suburb to rural life. How do we know that these black women with higher paying jobs were being verbally abused by their colleagues? Based on this report I got none of those answers. Awful. If I were her professor I would give her a D-.

That makes a lot of sense! Because it’s the mother that nurtures boys at a young age to be proper at the table and patient! This would also explain the mortality rate of adolescent african men in the country who die on the streets daily! Problem with diet? Problems with diet before pregnancy? Problems with parents? This looks generational not genetic!

Interesting topic, horrible answers... "racism" is always the cause huh

FLUFF

The remedy for this problem is a very simple one? That is that, American Black women should become more of a Virtuous woman ya-think? This woman-type, thanks to Feminism mind-you, for she knows not, and haven't a clue to the Powers of the Virtuous woman in the slightest, especially as it pertains to her Over-all health that's contained within the Powers of the Virtuous woman, no? As the saying goes, “You Can’t Teach What You Don’t Know,” right? With that, why won't there-be a Study or Research done in support of the Virtuous woman, its Lifestyle and All Of Its Benefits? Well we all know that’s, “To Much Like Right” and therefore Shall Never-be, no?

What a surprise. Must be those heavy gold chains I guess.

Fake news

First, they would have to define infant mortality for us. If infant mortality means a death of an infant anytime from the womb through the first year, then the idea of racism as a killer is absolutely flawed and inflammatory. How 'bout eating habits and care of the infant? Perhaps blacks in America don't understand how to properly take care of infants. Then we would need to educate them. Second, if infant mortality only means death of the infant in the womb, then racism is again a flawed and inflammatory reason. This would rest on how the woman takes care of herself -- i.e. is she taking her prenatal vitamins? Having regular doctor check ups? Education of blacks is again the key. Finally, lets get some real doctors to investigate this and not one who has a vested interest in crying racism while she also gets ahead on the backs of all of us i.e. Affirmative Action!!!!

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