Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Get Up! Stand Up. Prophet Bob Marley in Munich (corrected)

Du Bois wrote this in 1899:

One has but to visit   a Seventh Ward church on Sunday night and see an audience of 1500 sit two and three hours in the foul atmosphere   of a closely shut auditorium to realize that long formed   habits of life explain much of Negro consumption and   pneumonia ; again the Negroes live in unsanitary dwellings, partly by their own fault, partly on account of the   difficulty of securing decent houses by reason of race   prejudice. If one goes through the streets of the Seventh   Ward and picks out those streets and houses which, on   account of their poor condition, lack of repair, absence of   conveniences and limited share of air and light, contain the   worst dwellings, one finds that the great majority of such   streets and houses are occupied by Negroes. In some   cases it is the Negroes' fault that the houses are so bad ;   but in very many cases landlords refuse to repair and refit   for Negro tenants... The Philadelphia Negro, p. 160

On Wednesday, 29 April 2020, 12:40:06 GMT-4, Gloria Emeagwali <gloria.emeagwali@gmail.com> wrote:

Biko,

Covid19  is in a different time zone from Du Bois.

 Inherited dietary deficiencies are not genetically and biologically based but as you know sociological in origins.
The last time I visited Johannesburg, I noticed in the hotels I stayed in, that many of the South African middle class elite were rushing to eat

sausages and bacon with abandon, foods with carcinogenic and obesity dangers.

So dietary deficiencies come from various sources, including relentless adverts and misinformation by marketing agencies, questionable role models, and in some cases, inherited patterns of consumption.

Thanks for your comments.

GE

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On Apr 29, 2020, at 11:35 AM, 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:



On #2, Du Bois cautions against any assumption that African Americans are less fit to survive due to inherited genes, contrary to such unscientific allegations by some scholars. His analysis shows that African Americans may be over-represented in some cities but that whites remain overwhelmingly more likely to die from an epidemic such as the tuberculosis or consumption epidemic that killed more whites in the South than Blacks in the North. In agreement with all your other points, he concluded that race is not the cause of the deaths but implied that racist policies or institutionalized racism may be to blame. In The Philadelphia Negro, he was critical of the poor diets and the lack of ventilation in the homes and the churches where the windows remained shut all year round during an epidemic of tuberculosis or consumption at a time that it was illegal for African Americans to walk in the public parks. Today, architects are thinking of retrofitting homes and offices to emphasize the free flow of natural air as one of the defense mechanisms against COVID-19 instead of relying on energy-efficient mechanical recirculation of air, though poor inner-city dwellers and care home residents may remain reluctant to open their windows due to air pollution outside from cars, noise pollution, and fear of burglary or fear of pollen dust or fear of cold air or fear of hot air, all year round. See Du Bois on the myth of African American excessive death:

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.93.2.272

Biko

On Wednesday, 29 April 2020, 10:48:55 GMT-4, Gloria Emeagwali <gloria.emeagwali@gmail.com> wrote:

Gloria Emeagwali <gloria.emeagwali@gmail.com>	8:21 AM (33 minutes ago)
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Well let me kill three birds with one stone, so to speak. First of all, to OA who has assumed rather  too confidently that marijuana causes schizophrenia.

But what if it is the other way around, namely, that some folks with schizophrenia use marijuana as a coping mechanism and a therapeutic device? 

Distinguishing the evangelical and secularist use of the term prophet is helpful. 

As for the disproportionate percentage of African American  deaths to Covid 19, mentioned by the poetic OKELLO OCULI, the following comes to mind, granted that it relates to a segment of the AA population, and not the whole:

1.  Lack of access to sound affordable medical care in normal times, and the dismantling of Obama's health care initiative.

2. Inherited dietary deficiencies  and practices - perpetuated by the fast food chains, low income, and decades of inattention to obesity generating foods.

3.  Excessive exposure to Covid-19 in nursing homes - and jobs as CNA  workers, hospital aides, 

delivery etc. - that are detrimental in the era  of Covid 19. High -paid medics and nurses are also at risk.

4. Crowded residential areas,  in densely populated  cities that preclude social distancing procedures.

5. A narcissistic President, slow to act in securing protective gear

for exposed individuals - believed to be outside loyalist voter -catchment zones.

6.  Blind faith, crowded churches -that initially defied social distancing measures. 

We  all  have to guard against the covert  eugenical use of Covid 19 by politicians - worldwide.

GE

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