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