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| If trends hold, all Black women will be considered morbidly obese in 30 years |
In the United States and other developed countries, where access to food isn’t usually a problem, poor people tend to be fatter than wealthy people, and Americans living in rural areas tend to be more obese than Americans living in inner cities. (In 2008, the five states with obesity rates of 30 percent or more were Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Tennessee.) Black children are more at peril of becoming obese than white children; black women are more than 50 percent more likely to be obese than white women. “At the current rate of increase,” epidemiologists noted in a recent article in Obesity, “it will take less than 30 years for all black women to become overweight or obese.”The cost to the United States in terms of mushrooming health care expenses will only be outpaced by the burgeoning waistlines of Black women and could lead to a new era of thievery, if evidence from a recent heist in Oklahoma is considered:
Two women are arrested for shoplifting and police say they used their bodies to conceal the goods. Edmond police authorities say it was at the Edmond TJ Maxx that loss prevention officers found the duo stuffing items under their belly fat and breasts.
They say they took four pair of boots, three pair of jeans, a wallet and gloves; $2,600 worth of store merchandise.
Ailene Brown, 28, and 37-year-old Shmeco Thomas were arrested for shoplifting and are facing felony charges.
Officer James Hamm said, "These two were actually concealing them in areas of their body where excess skin was, under their chest area and armpits."
The utilization of excessive body fat to hide stolen wares from department stores should be a growing concern for store managers and stock holders concerned with maintaining a healthy bottom line, the exact opposite of what Black women nationwide seemed concerned with keeping healthy.
We have entered the brave new world of criminality, where white people dress up as Black people to rob banks and morbidly obese Black women hide stolen clothes, shoes and other amenities within their grotesquely swollen epidermis.
The sad thing is the two Black women suspected of stealing these goods probably looked just as corpulent walking into the store as they did upon leaving.
A precedent has been set in Oklahoma: obese Black women stealing items by hiding it in their body fat. Each day brings us one step closer to the realization of a nation completely full of portly Black women and the amount of clothes that can be concealed in their ever-engorging body mass could be limitless.
23 comments:
I think they be entitled to whatever. Barack say to re-distribute, so go for it.
Yup, black women are pretty damn fat. What can I say?
(and yes, for any black trolls out there, I am aware that there are also a good number of fat white women. That being said, black women outpace everyone in this category)
Newsweek had an interesting article recently, about the "Dinner Divide".
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/11/22/what-food-says-about-class-in-america.html
There is an interesting correlation in this country--America the Beautiful!!--existing between poverty (or near poverty) and obesity rates. Essentially, the higher your class, the better, more wholesome foods you will consume. The poorer you are, the more likely you are to consume fatty foods.
This seems to be antipodal to times of old when kings and aristocrats could put sea lion and dolphin on their tables and families of paupers were emaciated and eating nothing but beer, bread, and cheese.
If you venture out to a Wal-Mart on the first of the month, you will see individuals (of all "races") using EBT cards to buy sugary high fat foods, milk, and ground beef. Because it's cheap, hamburger helper, too. Someone getting $400/mo food allotment will extend their money if they buy canned instead of fresh.
You did mention in the Black Friday post that blacks suffer from income inequality. I'm glad you can acknowledge that.
I find it odd, then, that you use obesity rates amongst blacks as a way to jab at that group in your typical inimitable way (do you ever sleep, man??? you must have so much free time!!!). Instead, growing obesity rates--among everyone, whites, Hispanics, too--should give you pause: it seems more of a reflection of America the Beautiful's inability to decrease the gap between rich and poor. And it gets worse every year.
I was sort of poor growing up--I used to live in a trailer park as a teenager--and we used to eat pretty bad. Boiled hot dogs cut up in boxed macaroni and cheese; it was good at the time. It's hard for me to imagine poor people eating any better than that; it's too expensive.
If we want to curb obesity rates, we need to make sure poorer individuals can afford whole foods. Yeah, you mock these women because they are black and it fits the agenda. But do you ever stop to question WHY? Or do you not care?
As an aside, not all black women are fat. My wife isn't. Black women have curves in all the right places, moreso than white or Asian women, which is why I don't date in my race (I'm white). She has arms like Angela Bassett and she can kick anyone's ass, even mine...
Guys, you can bang your head against the wall with righteous indignation or you can buy stock in McDonald's (MCD) and Taco Bell/KFC (YUM).
I cant help but laugh...so to add insult to injury I post this link.
http://www.365black.com/365black/index.jsp
HT- my parents came from a 3rd world country and we started here in USA in a crappy lower mid class neighborhood. My mom never bought us hot dogs, sodas, canned food, or any crap. She never bought us organic crap either. We ate rice, which is cheap, fresh vegetables like cabbage and sweet potatoes, which are cheap, and bought the lesser cuts of meat like chicken legs and thighs, as well as pork shoulder. I fail to understand why anyone would themselves eat, let alone feed their kids, the dog shit that passes for food at fast food franchises or anything boxed or canned. I can only explain this situation by innate laziness and mental stupidity, a double whammy, which explains why they are impoverished in the first place. I don't buy the argument that people "don't have the time" because there is always time for something important if you make it happen. You could cook all your food on Saturday night instead of going to da club, and then freeze everything for the week.
Recurring poverty is a symptom of mental deficiency, and the inability of a group of people that are unable to adapt to a changing environment.
Back in the 3rd world country from which my family comes from, poor people, and all those unable to adapt and overcome, quite bluntly, starve to death by the thousands on a daily basis. In this country they get morbidly obese.
"You did mention in the Black Friday post that blacks suffer from income inequality. I'm glad you can acknowledge that."
What is there to acknowledge? When you have the highest rate of not finishing high school, it is an absolute certainty that you will earn less.
Add in a long criminal rap sheet, and you're stuck with mostly minimum wage jobs.
This isn't rocket science.
"As an aside, not all black women are fat. My wife isn't."
Correct. 70% is not "all".
Congratulations on choosing your wife from the 30% minority, and be advised to keep her away from the chinese buffet and KFC.
Anonymous wrote:"What is there to acknowledge? When you have the highest rate of not finishing high school, it is an absolute certainty that you will earn less. Add in a long criminal rap sheet, and you're stuck with mostly minimum wage jobs.
This isn't rocket science. "
Not to mention a catastrophic illegitimate birth rate over 70%. A culture cannot thrive and survive when the family unit is under the stress and attack that it currently is within the black family.
And yes, while obesity rates are going up for all racial demographics in the country, black Americans have no room or margin for error. With all of the other problems systemic in their community, they don't need the added burden of purposefully making themselves fat to the point where they become diabetic and/or obese.
If you are already an under/un-educated black woman who has several illegitimate children and you're ginormous, it stands to reason that job prospects will be slim-to-none.
Human Toy wrote:"If you venture out to a Wal-Mart on the first of the month, you will see individuals (of all "races") using EBT cards to buy sugary high fat foods, milk, and ground beef. Because it's cheap, hamburger helper, too. Someone getting $400/mo food allotment will extend their money if they buy canned instead of fresh."
Must disagree with you. I've been going to grocery stores for decades now, and I can't recall a single instance of a Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Indian ever using food stamps, WIC, or EBT cards. Seen plenty of whites, blacks, and Latino-Americans, including lots of Illegal Aliens using WIC, but no races from Asian or Southwestern Asian cultures.
Personally, I believe all these government programs should be phased out. I'm beyond sick and tired of paying for the children of illegals to get milk and cheese and juice with WIC vouchers. It's bad enough they are illegals, but so many of them can't even speak English. I got stuck behind an illegal using WIC vouchers a few months ago; she had put all the wrong products in her basket, and she kept saying "Que?" to everything the cashier said. They finally had to do all her shopping for her...from the register. Must've taken me twenty minutes to get through that line.
This has always been the problem. Fat black women ,single, pumping out chimp after fatherless chimp. Demanding everything for free. I don't blame the black males for taking off...why would any man want a fat black manatee for a wife?
"Yeah, you mock these women because they are black and it fits the agenda. But do you ever stop to question WHY? Or do you not care?"
There are multiple reasons WHY.
1. Lack of self restraint.
2. Lack of intelligence.
3. Lack of personal responsibility.
4. Lack of ability to consider consequences.
5. Unbridled willingness to burden others with the cost of their own atrocious behavior.
For Critical Thinker:
"It's hard for me to imagine poor people eating any better than that; it's too expensive."
You are nuts. A very, very brainwashed liberal and you should stop yapping and pay attention. Poor people are poor because of low IQ and lousy decision making skills. They live in the moment, never prepared for problems that might arise. They purchase hair extensions and $200 baby sneakers instead of paying their bills. If they had to fund their own food purchases, they would make better choices.
Everyone knows this!
I spend about $80 cash per week for a family of 5. In my cart go huge bags of brown rice and pinto beans, block of cheddar, collards, sweet potatoes, eggs, pure maple syrup, 15 bananas, 5lb bag carrots, ground beef for chili, whole chickens and chicken backs for stock on sale, whole wheat flour, generic butter, whole oats in bulk and yogurt. I often stock up to save on gasoline. I clip coupons.
I can make 3 meals from one hen, including a weeks worth of stock for soup, which we eat almost every day. I pack my husbands lunch and breakfast. Shockingly we drink only water with meals. I make sourdough bread, tortillas, and pancakes from scratch each week. Oatmeal with raisins, butter, and honey for breakfast. I grow most of our vegetables and some fruit all summer in my yard and freeze the extras. Blacks also purchase $10 individual hot meals in styrofoam boxes from local soul food joints.
Am I better than anyone else? Not sure, but I sure am smarter, more prepared, and thinner than the "poor" blacks and mexicans I see at the grocery store. They buy frozen pizza, frozen dinners, soda, cigarettes, box cereal, gallons of milk and colored drinks, whole cakes, Doritos, frozen chicken wings, ice-cream, fish sticks, frozen french fries and fried chicken, already cooked bacon, cold cuts, styrofoam plates and cups, loaves of white bread, and bags of sugar and kool-aid packets.
I am living proof that it can be done, so your argument is not valid. I think that each woman who receives welfare benefits should be closely monitored and required to grow some of her family's food in a community garden.
They should also be given mandatory birth control shots and required not to reproduce.
Blacks like all government welfare benefits because they free up cash for important necessities such as designer clothing, restaurant food, alcohol, false eyelashes, X-Box systems, rent-to-own furniture, manicures, prostitutes, and movie tickets.
Here is the truth. White people have always planned ahead, anticipated need, and acted accordingly. That is why white civilizations feed themselves and are not third-world. Whites have been through amazingly difficult circumstances and always rise victorious and practice personal responsibility.
We see the exact same patterns in America that exist around the world. The black and mexican populations are never successful because of their lower IQ, laziness, and impulsivity. Of course there are a few exceptions, but I won't go into that. This is mostly the rule and explains the huge gaps between white and black/mexican. Blacks and mexicans will continue to make the same mistakes over and over again and never learn from them. They are just not smart enough to do so. And so we all pay a huge price for funding these populations and allowing them to grow unchecked.
For the record, the quote you cited was NOT from Critical Thinker.
Even here, the trolls have brought up the "hunger in America" lie. Processed and boxed and frozen foods are far more expensive than fresh, but you have to be willing and able to COOK, as others have noted.
On Thanksgiving, the local left-wing rag had a big picture of the "hungry" eating at a Salvation Army holiday dinner. These "hungry" were a black couple; the woman was morbidly obese. She also had enough money for visible tattoos, a manicure (it's been months since I had the time or extra cash for one), and a weave, but not food, of course. Just another reason I've never given to the Salvation Army - the main reason is that I won't give charity to illegals. All of the bell ringers around here are either black or hispanic - although I actually saw a Chinese the other day as well. Irrelevant; I won't give them a penny.
The church we are currently attending (still looking for one to call home) has started a food drive for the "hungry" for the Christmas season. They guy leading the drive specifically mentioned the number of "needy" people in two particular areas - which just happen to have massive numbers of illegals. Another charitable drive to which I will not contribute. My husband works hard for his salary; I will not piss it away in "feel-good" gestures to lawbreakers.
OK, direct my comments to "Human Toy" then.
Sorry, too many strange names to keep track of.
Something that would help is disallow "empty calorie" foods from EBT Food Aid! No more chips, soft drinks, Kool-Aid, frozen sugar-water, Drakes, Hostess, Little Debbie etc.
Of course this would be over the bodies of the carbonated sugar water and snack-foods lobbyists :( .
Sheila,
2 Cor 9:7 -- "Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver."
I hope you do find that church one day, one that promises Heaven to racist Scrooges. Good luck with that, sister.
Percy Kittens,
No, I've seen Asians at my Wal-Mart Supercenter (ie. the Wal-Marts with the grocery stores attached for anyone out of the "know"). Filipinos, Hmongs, the Asian groups that tend to be poorer.
Generally, if you go to Wal-Marts, you'll see poor people of all stripes; at least, this has been my experience. Maybe it depends on region; I live in a pretty diverse Southwestern city.
"Congratulations on choosing your wife from the 30% minority, and be advised to keep her away from the chinese buffet and KFC."
As with anyone, any woman, regardless of "race"!!! You know, I've dated black women since I was 16, exclusively since college, of all shapes, sizes, hues. No, it's not because I am a beta male or because I can't find a white woman; on the contrary, I have a preference and orient myself thusly.
Someone said "who would want a fat black manatee" and I have to take offense to that. If you are so superficial to focus so much on a woman's outer shell, you deserve to be alone. Period. Yes, my wife is not one of those God-foresaken, unlovable, irreversibly-damned-to-Hell "manatees" but I've dated some women I'm assuming many of you would place in that category? (ie, women the size of Queen Latifah or pre-weight loss Jennifer Hudson? what denotes "manatee" if "too fat" is Jessica Simpson???)
Don't knock "manatees" until you've tried them; Gabourey Sidibe is definitely not my type but, all things considered, I'd rather do a pillow than a coatrack.
Anonymous @ 10:09AM,
No, I tend to agree about poor people in terms of poor decision-amking skills but poverty is a cycle and, whether you'd like to admit it or not, they don't know any better and need help. You are pretty delusional if you think one day most individuals at or below the poverty line are going to wake up and "know" how to do better for themselves. That's as ludicrous as spontaneous generation.
I applaud your thrift and resourcefulness, I do, but most people in poverty--in this country, at least--have to be taught said resourcefulness. It's not innate; it's learned.
You should at least be honest enough to admit that. I doubt you were born a sort of pioneer woman, a MacGyver of "food", if you will.
But you mentioned something that probably slipped past your attention: you grow your own vegetables and fruit, food groups pretty expensive even on my wallet, and I'm not exactly poor. I guess it's "possible" to grow vegetables in a 1x1 patch of dirt, slightly at a distance from broken glass and rocks, but most poor people don't have your luxury. So a "requirement" to grow vegetables is only do-able if your plan decides to dole out free Topsy Turvys, or move welfare recipients into neighborhoods with a bit of arable land.
Perhaps near you.
God damn, your level of pomposity is really sickening. And cut the crap with the eugenics talk, Margaret Sanger; not everyone on welfare is a worthless waste of tax dollars. Most people on assistance are truly in need and deserving. A few bad apples shouldn't be the impetus to deny millions of families help. Come on, think it through, and in the realm of reality, please!!!
"Don't knock "manatees" until you've tried them;"
He's right, you know. Manatees are the most uninhibited of the species. They will engage in any (and I mean ANY!) perversion you might request, in exchange for either a compliment from you, or even just a moment where your face ISN'T contorted into a rictus of disgust. Manatees are hungry for approval. Approval and chicken wings.
FYI, Queen Latifa is technically not a manatee, she's a Sasquatch.
"You grow your own vegetables and fruit, food groups pretty expensive even on my wallet, and I'm not exactly poor."
Ugh, here it is again, one of the biggest lies out there. Nearly every city has a farmer's market of some sort where fruits and vegetables are dirt cheap, often less than 50% of the price of comparable items at the grocery store. Nearly every urban area also has a Chinatown, where produce and even meats can be purchased for a pittance. Just because people are too brain dead to know where to find a bargain, doesn't mean bargains aren't out there.
You do have a point about the ignorant poor needing to be "trained" to know these things, but the trouble is I'm too busy actually, you know, WORKING, to be a hand-holder for the inept. Ultimately, I don't really care what people do. If they're too stupid to figure out how to live in a healthy and productive manner, they're only hurting themselves. Survival of the fittest, baby. Happening all around us.
I'm not even the anon you were originally responding to, but the "ain't no health food in the ghetto" argument irks my soul every time I hear it. I'm just saying, don't come here with your rhetoric about "food drought," or whatever the progs are calling it these days. It's a myth.
HT - If excuses were nickles, then the blacks wouldn't be on food stamps. There is always a way to succeed if you are determined, that is the ethos of this country.
Tell me, why do Mexicans jump the fence everyday to come over here to harvest lettuce for 5 bucks an hour while the blacks need welfare checks? If your answer is anything other than poor black work ethic, then you are intellectually dishonest.
"God damn, your level of pomposity is really sickening. And cut the crap with the eugenics talk, Margaret Sanger; not everyone on welfare is a worthless waste of tax dollars. Most people on assistance are truly in need and deserving. A few bad apples shouldn't be the impetus to deny millions of families help. Come on, think it through, and in the realm of reality, please!!! "
You have that exactly backwards. The few deserving exceptions should not be the basis of a policy that bleeds hard working Americans dry and that does nothing to help poor people (ie minorities), it only deepens their dependence on handouts.
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