Mushmouth
09-27-2018, 07:05 PM
Racism Is Killing Black Babies
The high rate of death for black infants showcases the virulent brutality of institutional racism. Recent data collected by the US government has found that black babies are twice as likely to die as white babies. And, according to reporting done by ProPublica in 2017, black mothers are 243 percent more likely to die of pregnancy or childbirth-related causes than white women. This injustice is explicitly racist and transerveses class
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kvaz5/racism-is-killing-black-babies-but-this-doula-is-fighting-back
The high rate of death for black infants showcases the virulent brutality of institutional racism. Recent data collected by the US government has found that black babies are twice as likely to die as white babies. And, according to reporting done by ProPublica in 2017, black mothers are 243 percent more likely to die of pregnancy or childbirth-related causes than white women. This injustice is explicitly racist and transerveses class
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kvaz5/racism-is-killing-black-babies-but-this-doula-is-fighting-back