Valerie Jarrett and Obamacare: What Universal Health Care Means in BRA

We could have been on Mars...

Courtesy of The Root, yet another shining example that Black people don't like to pay for health care:

Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Obama, broke with protocol and delivered a campaign-style speech to the National Association of Black Journalists in New Orleans Saturday night as the association's annual awards banquet got underway. 

Jarrett ticked off what she considered the Obama administration's accomplishments and said, "We need journalists who will make people think, who will connect the dots, look past the distractions." 

At such occasions, speakers traditionally wish the organization well and speak to an issue of journalism. Veterans said they found the remarks inappropriate.
Some rolled their eyes. "Why not just send a [campaign] video?" one said. "That was out of line," said another afterward. 

NABJ President Gregory H. Lee Jr. and Executive Director Maurice Foster each said they did not know what Jarrett was going to say. 

However, Foster added that Jarrett "has been a good supporter of NABJ. . . . She's always lent herself to project the image of NABJ in a positive light and the good things that we do. Her connection with us and her family connection to the organization is something to be appreciated." Jarrett is the divorced daughter-in-law of the late Vernon Jarrett, a legendary Chicago journalist and an NABJ founder.

On Saturday afternoon, Jarrett spoke with members of the Trotter Group of African American columnists and with regional reporters, and again outlined what she considered the Obama administration's successes, among them funding for historically black colleges and universities; health care reform, which she said will disproportionately help African Americans; and reducing disparities between penalties for possession of crack and for powdered cocaine. 

Jarrett acknowledged, however, that "the unemployment rate is far too high in the black community" and that it was "fair criticism" to say the administration had not done a good enough job of selling its health care plan.

In a real country, universal healthcare wouldn't be up for debate. Nor would having a colony on Mars. In Black-Run America (BRA), funding HBCU's - take a look at the graduation rates of these "institutions" - and employing-unemployable-in-the-private-sector Black people via public/government jobs is a much greater mandate.

What was it Lawrence Auster wrote about what Blacks contribute to civilization?:

Did you know this? I didn’t. I just came upon it in Wikipedia’s article on Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King’s successor as the head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference: 

"On the eve of the Apollo 11 launch, July 15, 1969, Abernathy arrived at Cape Canaveral with several hundred members of the poor people to protest spending of government space exploration, while many Americans remained poor. He was met by Thomas O. Paine, the Administrator of NASA, whom he told that in the face of such suffering, space flight represented an inhuman priority and funds should be spent instead to “feed the hungry, clothe the naked, tend the sick, and house the homeless.” Mr. Paine told Abernathy that the advances in space exploration were child’s play compared to the tremendously difficult human problems of society, and told him that “if we could solve the problems of poverty by not pushing the button to launch men to the moon tomorrow, then we would not push that button.” On the day of the launch, Dr. Abernathy led a small group of protesters to the restricted guest viewing area of the space center and chanted, “We are not astronauts, but we are people.” 

So there you have it. One of the greatest achievements in history, the first manned flight to the moon, and the most prestigious black civil rights organization, the SCLC, wanted it not to take place, because they thought the money it cost could be better spent on transfer payments to blacks. And that is all that blacks as an organized community have to contribute to our civilization: endless complaints about white injustice to blacks, and endless demands for the wealth and goods that white people have produced, and that blacks are incapable of producing. Plus a third “contribution” not brought out in this incident: endless threats of violence and riots if the blacks don’t get their way. 

The black blackmail and dragging down of white civilization will continue, until whites stand up, name it for what it is, and say, “No more.”

White America owes Black America nothing. Not even health care. Just look at how Black people have treated Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, a virtual free clinic for Black people provided by the white tax payers of Fulton County.

Grady is but a microcosm of the problem Obamacare will unleash on the nation.

And Valerie Jarrett brags about it to the NABJ.

And those members of the NABJ at Newsone.com then brag about Obamacare being upheld as Constitutional and what it means for Black people (What Obama’s Health Care Means For African Americans, Lynette Holloway, June 28, 2012):

Civil rights leaders and lawmakers on Thursday applauded the U.S. Supreme Court’s narrow decision to uphold President Barack Obama’s landmark health care law, which upheld the centerpiece of the measure that requires all people to have health insurance.

“This is manna from heaven,” U.S. Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) told NewsOne shortly after President Obama’s noontime news conference about the ruling. “I couldn’t be more delighted because this is going to make sure that 32-million people who did not have access to health insurance will now have it. While I’m in favor of a national health plan, this is a little short of that. It will go a long way toward improving the quality of life for million so of Americans. ”

“I’ve been working on health care reform since the 1970s and this is a hallmark piece of legislation for African Americans and all Americans,” Davis said. “The one thing that we may see a reduction for is in Medicaid. There’s just less money there than we had hoped for, but overall we are pleased with the ruling.”
In a prepared statement, NAACP Chairman Roslyn M. Brock called the ruling “crucial”:

The Supreme Court made a crucial decision today to uphold the core provisions of the Affordable Care Act,” Brock stated in the release. The NAACP has long supported the full and complete implementation of this law. Access to quality, affordable health care is a civil and human right that should not be reserved for the wealthy or the few. The 32-million American men, women, and children covered under this law can now breathe easier.”

In a prepared statement, U.S. Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) called the decision a victory for America:

When Congress passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, Rangel said, we accomplished something that couldn’t be achieved since 1912. I will continue to work with my Democratic Colleagues to defend President Barack Obama’s landmark legislation and fight against Republican attempts to dismantle it.  In the meantime, it’s time to focus on spurring economic growth and getting Americans back to work.

 Freedom failed. Never forget that.

Boise State, Hate Facts and STDs

Hate Facts. We've told you about them. Now, Boise State knows all about them:

"Students at Boise State University are calling some fliers offensive and racist.

The literature first surfaced last week on World AIDS Day. It tells people how not to catch AIDS by suggesting no sex with bisexuals or people who inject drugs. But the language that has students most concerned is about African Americans.

Senior Jalara Walker, an African-American, came to BSU from California. She's loved her time on campus, but that changed last week after she found several fliers in a class.

"I really thought that stuff like this was over," Walker said.

The fliers read: "Don't Catch AIDS!" at the top. At the bottom they say: "Blacks are walking STD factories” and “once u go black we don't want u back.”

Well, we've also told you about the Center for Disease Control and the reality of Healthcare. We know: these facts are unpleasant. Boise State students find them revolting to point out and impolite to discuss in polite society.

So, some statistics for you all to ponder, why Boise State lock hands in an effort to eradicate hate from the souls of those who make informed points about sexually transmitted diseases and those who find themselves affected disproportionately:

"The majority of Allegheny County cases of sexually transmitted disease occurs in African-Americans, prompting county health officials to consider new strategies to tackle the problem.

In 2008, 49 of 89 cases of syphilis in Allegheny County, or more than 60 percent of all cases, involved African-Americans, who make up 13.5 percent of the county population.

Meanwhile, about 1,585 of 2,164 cases of gonorrhea last year (or 73.3 percent of the county total) and 3,070 of 5,206 cases of chlamydia (about 60 percent of the total) also involved African-Americans."

How about HIV/AIDS?:

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in African American communities is a continuing public health crisis for the United States. At the end of 2006 there were an estimated 1.1 million people living with HIV infection, of which almost half (46%) were black/African American [1]. While blacks represent approximately 12 percent of the U.S. population, they continue to account for a higher proportion of cases at all stages of HIV/AIDS—from infection with HIV to death with AIDS—compared with members of other races and ethnicities [2, 3].

The Numbers

HIV/AIDS in 2007

• Blacks accounted for 51% of the 42, 655 (including children) new HIV/AIDS diagnoses in 34 states with long-term, confidential name-based HIV reporting [3].
• Blacks accounted for 48% of the 551,932 persons* (including children) living with HIV/AIDS in 34 states with long-term, confidential name-based HIV reporting

And, how about a few more statistics:

• Minority populations have higher rates of reported gonorrhea and syphilis than whites. In 1993, compared with whites, African Americans, Native Americans, and Hispanics had gonorrhea rates that were 42, 5, and 4 times higher, respectively; African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans had syphilis rates that were 64, 13, and 5 times higher, respectively.¹
• The South has consistently had higher rates of both gonorrhea and syphilis compared with other regions throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Minority populations are disproportionately located in southern states.²
• African American men have gonorrhea rates that are 68 times greater than those in white men. For women, these rates are 28 times greater in African Americans than in whites.³
• African American adolescents and young adults have STD rates that are more than 20 times higher than those in white adolescents.

Boise State has 19,000 students attending the university, and finds itself 80 percent white and 3.5 percent Black.

What all this means is those who believe truth will one day win out in America lack any semblance of grounding about the true nature of politics in this nation.

Truth is the first casualty in a heterogeneous nation, and as Boise State students hope to prove, hate facts can be displaced by locking hands and signing "We Are the World"...

Stuff Black People Don't Like will continue to showcase the truth, regardless of the implications. We'll be signing Toto's Africa instead, though.

Consult this site from the CDC (the United States government) to understand the reality of STD rates and Black people.

#754. Watches Left on Dying Men in the ER

"I might not be a doctor, but I play one one TV."

Who doesn't remember that famous commercial? Everyone loves doctors, yet few care to invest the time and effort into the proper education to be certified to take the Hippocratic Oath. In fact, doctors record some of the highest trust levels from the general public (amid a number of different vocations).

How many TV shows have centered around the hospital and the various eccentricities and nuisances of life in the ER?

Face it: we are a nation that loves watching life in the ER on television and also in trusting doctors to constantly give us the best advice for our health.

We love doctors, for they might give us unpleasant news occasionally, but it usually comes with a lollipop at the end of visit. Everyone loves lollipops.

However, SBPDL will be focusing on the ER and the entire medical profession the next few days, and we recently came across a most fascinating story concerning a member of the medical fraternity that tarnished the halo around the M.D. title a few degrees:

"Dr. Cleveland Enmon is an emergency room physician at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Stockton . Dr. Enmon is accused of abandoning attempts to resuscitate a patient from cardiac arrest to instead pocket the dead man’s valuable Rolex wristwatch. The suit, filed by the adult children of Jerry Keith Kubena, Sr., alleges that Dr. Cleveland James Enmon on June 1 “formed the intent” to swipe the Rolex from Kubena’s wrist while treating the man at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Stockton."

The nursing staff assisting Enmon soon noticed that Kubena’s flashy timepiece was missing; “Where is the wristwatch?” the suit quotes one as uttering. Two more nurses allegedly noticed a wristwatch-shaped bulge in the doctor’s pocket. Security was called to investigate the disappearance. Defying security’s orders, the lawsuit notes Enmon walked out of the operating room and into the parking lot, a move caught on hospital security cameras. A nurse claims she saw Enmon toss a small object into the grass and she subsequently led security personnel to that exact area and recovered the watch."

This story is a shocking reminder that life in the ER isn't always glamorous and one can't be to careful with who they entrust their Rolex too guard, especially when they struggle to cling to each breath.

Enmon was the former chief resident of Emergency Medicine in King-Drew Emergency Medicine, one of the nations worst hospitals ( you won't see any TV shows glorifying this ER ):

"King-Harbor found itself under public criticism once again after different stories ran in both the Los Angeles Times and LA Weekly in late May 2007 citing serious lapses in care, one fatal, at the renamed hospital.

The case of patient Edith Isabel Rodriguez, who bled to death on the emergency room floor after being ignored for 45 minutes, in particular became a cause célèbre about the failures and bureaucratic indifference of both King-Harbor as well as political and health leaders in the Los Angeles area; creating or reinforcing fears that the health care system will not take care of people in a time of dire need."

Black people in the Los Angeles were horrified at the prospect of losing the hospital, especially one named after one of the patron saints of the new America, Martin Luther King Jr.:

"Let's be honest," said Dr. Dennis S. O'Leary, president of The Joint Commission, a hospital accrediting group, "if this were a hospital different from King/Drew, this would have been over a long time ago."

He and other experts interviewed by The Times said the government would have moved much faster and more aggressively if King-Harbor, formerly known as King/Drew, didn't have a unique history and special standing in the community.

The hospital was one of the few gains from the 1965 Watts riots and still is one of the few places poor people in South Los Angeles can turn to for acute care. African American politicians, in particular, have embraced its salvation.

...The most recent problems began in January 2004, when inspectors found that nurses lied in charts about patients' conditions, failed to give crucial medications prescribed by doctors and left seriously ill patients unattended for hours -- including three who died."

So Dr. Enmon was a product of this hospital, that was universal decried as perhaps the most ineffectively run ER in the country, where patients were routinely left to rot? Any Rolex watches reported stolen at that prestigious hospital, before its doors were shuttered?

Dr. Enmon was a by-product of Morehouse College, a school which recently adopted new rules in a move to try and deter negative stereotypes about Black people. Something tells us this recent display of petty larceny, coupled with systematic indifference to the patients well-being is a shining example of the caliber of graduates Morehouse educates, as Dr. Enmon represents the Morehouse man with gusto!

Worse, another event recently transpired - this time in Philadelphia - where homeless, cracked out bums (obviously encouraged by Dr. Enmon's example) robbed a dying man of his watch!:

"A school counselor suffering an apparent heart attack died in a Philadelphia emergency room after waiting nearly 80 minutes for help — and a trio of homeless drug addicts nearby stole his watch instead of seeking aid, police said.

Joaquin Rivera, 63, died before seeing a triage nurse at Atria Health's Frankford Campus over the weekend, police said.

Rivera, a musician and activist in the city's Latino community, had spent more than 30 years working as a bilingual counselor at an inner-city high school.

"We're all destroyed. A guy like that, for him to leave us the way that he did — and with what happened to him — everybody's destroyed," said Jesse Bermudez, a friend and fellow musician."

The problem with this case though, is the trio of homeless drug addicts were multi-racial, which means Dr. Enmon and his alleged crime of stealing a Rolex has become something of an urban legend within the drug-addicted community, for he has so much in common with petty criminals.

A Morehouse educated doctor, who was the FORMER CHIEF OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE at a hospital that was routinely blasted for being an embarrassment to the medical profession (but was allowed to stay open due to racial politics) has more in common with homeless drug addicts, then with these M.D.'s.

Stuff Black People Don't Like includes watches left on dying men in the Emergency Room/ ER, for Dr. Enmon seems to have more in common with drug addicts in Philadelphia then in being an upstanding representative of one of the finest medical schools for prospective Black M.D.'s ( or was ):

"While talking with four of his friends in Morehouse College’s Frederick Douglass Learning Resource Center, their conversation quickly turned to the September 2006 issue of Black Enterprise magazine, which included its biannual list of the “Top 50 Colleges for African Americans.” After four consecutive years of being the top ranked school, Morehouse’s placement on the most recent list dropped forty-four spots from number one to number forty-five."

If you are sick in a major city, it might be more conducive trying to find an actor who plays a doctor on TV then going to a hospital run by Morehouse graduates.

#24. Paying for Health care

Tomorrow, the United States Senate will begin debate on whether healthcare should be a right guaranteed to all by the federal government and paid for by the upstanding white citizenry of the country:

“The racial or ethnic composition of the 42.5 million non-payers roughly mirrors the demographics of American tax filers as a whole. For example, white Americans are 83 percent of total taxpayers, and the percentage of zero-tax filers who are white is 79 percent. African Americans are roughly 13 percent of total taxpayers and 16 percent of zero-tax filers. Asian Americans comprise 3.6 percent of total taxpayers and 3.2 percent of zero-tax filers.

That said, the percentage of non-payers within each ethnic or racial group does vary: 28.6 percent of Asian Americans tax filers get back every dollar withheld, 31.1 percent of white American tax filers will owe nothing, and 41.7 percent of African Americans will file a tax return with no liability."

The current estimated price tag for the implementation of universal healthcare is at a cool $1.5 trillion, as close to 50 million Americans currently our uninsured. If healthcare legislation in enacted, it will once again be white people (a mere 66 percent of the overall population) who will fit the bill (remember, they account for 83 percent of the taxpayers) who will shelter minorities from the cold:

“As 1 in 3 Americans self-identify as a member of a racial or ethnic minority group, and it is estimated that half of the U.S. population will be a person of color by 2045, there are significant health and economic consequences in eliminating, or failing to eliminate, disparities in access to health coverage and care. People of color are disproportionately served by public programs like Medicaid, and are less likely than Whites to receive health coverage through their employer. In addition, of the 45.7 million nonelderly Americans who were uninsured in 2008, more than half (55%) are people of color. Furthermore, a recent report estimated that 30.6%, or $230 billion, of direct medical expenditures between 2003 and 2006 were excess costs due to health and health care inequalities incurred by racial and ethnic minorities.”

Remember, Black people don’t pass on seconds, which puts them at a clear disadvantage when it comes to Black people’s health (take a look at the states with the best and worst overall health):

“The annual ranking looks at 22 indicators of health, including everything from how many children receive recommended vaccinations, to obesity and smoking rates, to cancer deaths. Vermont ranked first this year thanks in part to its low rate of obesity, high number of doctors and a low rate of child poverty. New England in general sets a benchmark for the country, the report found: All six New England states are in the top 10.

These states have favorable demographics and an excellent public health infrastructure, including a large number of doctors per capita.Eight of the 10 bottom-ranked states are from the south, with Mississippi coming in dead last for the ninth consecutive year. Mississippi has a sky-high death rate from heart disease and high infant mortality.”

Eight of the least healthy states come from the south? Wait, where is it that the majority of Black people reside in the United States? That’s right, the south:

“The Black Population: 2000 [pdf], one in a series of Census 2000 briefs,shows that 36.4 million people, or 12.9 percent of the total population,reported as Black or African American. This number includes 34.7 million,or 12.3 percent, who reported as Black alone, in addition to 1.8 million,or 0.6 percent, who reported as Black in combination with one or moreother races.

The 10 states where 60 percent of African Americans resided were: NewYork, California, Texas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina,Maryland, Michigan and Louisiana. Five of these had more than 2 millionBlacks each: New York, California, Texas, Florida and Georgia.

Of all the people who reported as Black in Census 2000, 54 percent lived in the South, 19 percent lived in the Midwest, 18 percent lived in the Northeast and 10 percent lived in the West."

Bad health and Black people are – according to the data – synonymous with each other, and the new healthcare legislation will only burden the tax payer – 83 percent happen to be of the monochromatic hue of white – with higher taxes. Consider the state of Black America’s overall health:

In 2005, the death rate for African Americans was higher than Whites for heart diseases, stroke, cancer, asthma, influenza and pneumonia, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, and homicide.

In 2005, African American men were 1.3 times as likely to have new cases of lung and prostate cancer, compared to non-Hispanic white men.

African American men are twice as likely to have new cases of stomach cancer as non-Hispanic white men.

African Americans men have lower 5-year cancer survival rates for lung and pancreatic cancer, compared to non-Hispanic white men.

In 2005, African American men were 2.4 times as likely to die from prostate cancer, as compared to non-Hispanic white men.

In 2005, African American women were 10% less likely to have been diagnosed with breast cancer, however, they were 34% more likely to die from breast cancer, compared to non-Hispanic white women.

African American women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with stomach cancer, and they were 2.4 times as likely to die from stomach cancer, compared to non-Hispanic white women.
Click here for more statistics on African Americans and Cancer.

African American adults are twice as likely than non-Hispanic white adults to have been diagnosed with diabetes by a physician.

In 2002, African American men were 2.1 times as likely to start treatment for end-stage renal disease related to diabetes, compared to non-Hispanic white men.

In 2003, diabetic African Americans were 1.7 times as likely as diabetic Whites to be hospitalized.

In 2005, African Americans were 2.2 times as likely as non-Hispanic Whites to die from diabetes. Click here for more statistics on African Americans and Diabetes.

Heart Disease

In 2005, African American men were 30% more likely to die from heart disease, as compared to non-Hispanic white men.

African Americans are 1.5 times as likely as non-Hispanic whites to have high blood pressure.

African American women are 1.7 times as likely as non-Hispanic white women to be obese.
Click here for more statistics on African Americans and Heart Disease.

Although African Americans make up only 13% of the total U.S. population, they accounted for 49% of HIV/AIDS cases in 2007."

It looks like universal healthcare passing will greatly impact the wallet of white people, for the bills will pile up to ensure that Black people’s overall health improves.

The health bill must be passed and Black legislators in Congress voted nearly unanimously for ratification, save for one, whom found himself the target of Jesse Jackson’s rhetorical bullets (remember, Mein Obama has been his target as well, er… his nuts):

"The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.“We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill from Alabama,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night.

“You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”…He is also the only member of the CBC to have voted against the healthcare bill earlier this month.…Other members of the CBC found no fault in Jackson's words. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) was in the audience.

He called Jackson's criticism of Davis "accurate," but said he did not hear Jackson say "You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man."

"If it is an issue that disproportionately impacts black folks, race has to be considered," Cleaver said. Jackson, he added, "is expected by his constituency to call balls and strikes."

It was hoped that with the election of Barack Obama we would live in a post-racial world, but instead we live in a world where racial strife seems to be aggregating at an exponential rate."

Atlanta – SBPDL’s favorite city – is home to Grady Memorial Hospital, which:

“…serves a large proportion of low-income patients. The hospital is supported almost entirely by Fulton and DeKalb counties, with little help from the suburbs or state, despite serving all of metro Atlanta's several counties.Grady has also suffered from corruption and cronyism.

In 2005, a state senator was convicted of using his influence to secure overpriced Grady contracts for his temporary services business. It is further plagued by staff shortages and anachronistic technology - notably as one of every five Medicaid reimbursement billings were rejected by the state due to filing mistakes.”

Let’s take a closer look at Grady, a hospital that grants “free” healthcare to the citizens of Atlanta:

“Solving some of Grady’s financial problems would also stir political tensions, the task force soon learned.Minority communities feared Grady, which cares for many of metro Atlanta’s uninsured and under-insured, would no longer serve them.

Founded in 1892, Grady provides about $270 million — 40 percent of its budget — in free health care per year.

“I think me being a part of the committee brought some level of sensitivity and integrity to the African-American community,” Russell said. “I certainly was very clear the mission was not to discontinue services to the minority community, but to enhance the quality of service.”

The task force not only sought financial solutions to Grady, but had to “educate the community on what Grady meant,” said Correll, now chairman of Grady Memorial Hospital Corp., which oversees Grady Health System.”

How was Grady so mismanaged you might ask? The answer might surprise some:

"Its (GRADY) budget of about $750 million was largely dependent on Medicaid patients; Grady is the state's largest Medicaid provider.

The hospital took a double blow in 2006 when the state legislature sliced $60 million out of the hospital's already strained budget and the hospital's indigent care bill swelled by $73 million.

It left a staggering gap between Grady's expenses and its income.

``It, in effect, sunk us,'' said Dr. Christopher Edwards, former vice-chair of the Fulton Dekalb Hospital Authority.…The next day, Grady's CEO, Dr. Otis Story, resigned. He had been at the helm for less than a year, often at odds with Grady's leadership. Now he would not be a part of the new plan.

A week later Edwards announced his departure, and a list of nominees for the new nonprofit board was unveiled. The list, which identified 11 of the 16 proposed members, included black and white citizens from the business and healthcare communities.

The names did little to put Fort at ease.

``The people who were named were not engaged in this issue,'' Fort said. ``And the money is tied to a specific person. That person's going to drive the train.''

Fort is referring to Correll. To Fort, Correll a former Georgia-Pacific CEO represents the white takeover of Grady, which is currently run by a majority-black board, serves mostly black patients and was most recently headed by a black man.

``What they're basically saying is, 'We cannot trust black people to run that hospital,''' Fort said. ``The changes at Grady are a signal that Atlanta is changing.''

Fort sees Grady is the first domino as the business community eyes opportunities to usurp the city's black political power.

``What's next? MARTA? Hartsfield?'' Fort asked, referring to Atlanta's public transportation system and airport.”

Black political power in Atlanta is waning, which could help save Grady. MARTA and Hartsfield will be the subject of another conversation...

Healthcare reform in the United States is important, but free healthcare put Grady Memorial Hospital in a hole it will never climb out of and worse, merely changing the color scheme of the Board of Directors of that organization is grounds for racial insensitivity and racist.

Worse, the changing demographics of America will result in an erosion of the majority of the tax base, which will only cause taxes to go up. Grady Memorial Hospital is a microcosm of the problems healthcare that is universally guaranteed will cause.

Black people can’t admit the failure of that hospital is on their hands.

Black people won’t admit the massive costs of universal healthcare will be on their hands either, although the data cited in this article shows whom will benefit most from free care.

Obviously, Stuff Black People Don’t Like includes paying for healthcare, for Obama will not only pass legislation that will pay for Black people’s mortgages and gas, but also their healthcare… all on that evil, white devil’s dime. For we know Black people don't listen to CDC, thus white stewardship must include fitting the bill for Black health.

#46. Listening to the CDC

Located in Atlanta, Georgia, the Center for Disease Control and and Prevention (CDC) has one purpose:

"It works to protect public health and safety by providing information to enhance health decisions, and it promotes health through partnerships with state health departments and other organizations. The CDC focuses national attention on developing and applying disease prevention and control (especially infectious diseases), environmental health, occupational safety and health, health promotion, prevention and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States."

With the stated goal of working to draw national attention to infectious diseases, the CDC does a valuable service in collecting information on current trends in the spreading of infectious disease and in providing this data in hopes of helping people make healthy decisions that will effect their standard of living.

With the fear of epidemics spreading across the country griping America in state of paralysis, the CDC is naturally at the forefront in educating the various races that comprise the citizenry of this nation what to expect in the case of an outbreak:

"Autopsies show that the H1N1 swine flu virus can cause deep, fatal lung infections rarely seen in seasonal flu but common with the deadly avian strain, experts reported today.

• 90% of those killed by the virus had an underlying condition that made them susceptible to serious diseases.

• The median age was 38. A 2-month-old victim died a day after becoming ill.

• 46% were obese; 27% had heart disease; 22% had asthma, and many had fatty liver disease.

Uh-oh. The reality of swine flu - which is said could kill millions this season - is that those who are already sick and obese from passing on seconds, could be more susceptible to the disease.

And those who already have health problems exhibit a clear cut disdain for listening to the CDC, which is merely trying to stop epidemics from spreading throughout the country.

The group in question for disregarding the heroic data the CDC compiles is Black people, as we are about to embark on a tour of the many diseases that strike the Black community and stalk Black people with the ferocity of Ahab after his great white whale.

Listening to the CDC's advice when it comes to practicing safe sex seems simple enough, but Black people find it extremely difficult:

"Race and ethnicity in the United States are risk markers that correlate with other more fundamental determinants of health status such as poverty, access to quality health care, health care seeking behavior, illicit drug use, and living in communities with high prevalence of STDs."

In 2007, approximately 48% of all chlamydia cases occurred among blacks (Table 11A). Overall, the rate of chlamydia among blacks in the United States was more than eight times that among whites. The rate of chlamydia among black women was more than seven times higher than the rate among white women (1,906.0 and 249.3 per 100,000 women, respectively).

In 2007, approximately 70% of the total number of reported cases of gonorrhea occurred among blacks (Table 21A). In 2007, the rate of gonorrhea among blacks was 662.9 cases per 100,000 population. Overall, the rate of gonorrhea among blacks in the United States was 19 times greater than that among whites This disparity is unchanged from recent years (20 times higher in 2003) (Figure Q, Table 21B). This disparity was higher for black men (26.1 times higher) than for black women (14.9 times higher) (Figure R). The disparity in gonorrhea rates for blacks was higher in the Midwest and Northeast (27.2 and 24.8 times higher, respectively) than in the South or the West (15.6 and 12.4 times higher, respectively).

Between 2006 and 2007, the rate of P&S syphilis among blacks increased 25.0% (from 11.2 to 14.0). In 2007, 46.0% of all cases of P&S syphilis reported to CDC were among blacks and 35.3% of all cases were among non-Hispanic whites (Table 33A). Compared to whites, the overall 2007 rate for blacks was 7.0 times higher. It was 5.9 times higher in 2006 (Table 33B). In 2007, the P&S rate among black men was more than 6.0 times higher than that among white men; the rate among black women was 14 times higher than that among white women. In some age groups, particularly 15-19 year old black men, disparities have increased markedly in recent years as rates of disease have increased.

In 2007, the rate of congenital syphilis (based on the mothers race/ethnicity) was 32.3 cases per 100,000 live births among blacks and 15.3 cases per 100,000 live births among Hispanics. These rates are 14 and 6.6 times higher, respectively, than the 2007 rate among whites.

When reading this data, it is important to remember that, not only are we living in a Black world now, but that Black people make up only 13 percent of the US population. Living in a Black world also means disregarding the CDC and the advice the organization it dispenses regarding disease prevention.

It has been argued that reasons for the health disparities between Black people and white is because of worse home conditions and lack of access to medicine, but the rates of asthma for Black people and white people would lead to this idea being discredited, or at least the instances of hospitalization might lead to the theory of over-reacting...

Worse than the rates of STDs that seem to be highly prevalent among Black people, is the rate of HIV/AIDs:

"At least 3 percent of District residents have HIV or AIDS, a total that far surpasses the 1 percent threshold that constitutes a "generalized and severe" epidemic, according to a report scheduled to be released by health officials tomorrow.

That translates into 2,984 residents per every 100,000 over the age of 12 -- or 15,120 -- according to the 2008 epidemiology report by the District's HIV/AIDS office.

"Our rates are higher than West Africa," said Shannon L. Hader, director of the District's HIV/AIDS Administration, who once led the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's work in Zimbabwe. "They're on par with Uganda and some parts of Kenya."

Whoops. That was only for Washington DC. Here is the CDC's information for the entire nation as it pertains to Black people and their predilection for acquiring HIV:

• Blacks accounted for 49% of the estimated 35,962 AIDS cases diagnosed in the 50 states and the District of Columbia [3].
• In 2007, the rates of AIDS diagnoses decreased among blacks but were still higher than the rates of any other race/ethnicity. The rate of AIDS diagnoses for black adults/adolescents were 10 times the rate for whites and nearly 3 times the rate for Hispanics. The rate of AIDS diagnoses for black women was 22 times the rate for white women. The rate of AIDS diagnoses for black men was almost 8 times the rate for white men [3].
• Blacks accounted for 44% of the 455,636* people living with AIDS in the 50 states and District of Columbia [3].
• By the end of 2007, 40% of the 562,793* persons with AIDS who died were black

Some people believe that health care access in the United States is not open to Black people, but this idea doesn't need any debunking as Black people love to visit the emergency room and are always treated.

An interesting article was recently published on LewRockwell.com which discussed what to expect from the swine flu, in actual terms of those getting sick:

"Instead of 150 million infected we see 18 million infected. Using these more realistic figures we can estimate a hospitalization rate of 90,000 and a projected death incidence of 5436.

Again, it is important to keep in mind that the infections will be evolving and not all at once as both sets of figures seem to imply. If we spread this over several months and waves of the infection, we see that at any one time the hospitalizations will be a much smaller number, as will the deaths.

Thus far, there have been nationwide 2,000 hospitalizations a month and 99 deaths a month.

Certainly the hospitals in the United States can handle the increase. In the United States we have 5,759 hospitals containing 955,000 beds and 70,000 ICU beds. Most hospitalized people will not require intensive care. Most are suffering from dehydration and only required IV fluid infusion."

There is a great desire now to pass universal health care, which would benefit primarily uninsured Black people, and place the bill for their porous health firmly in the hands of white people. Many agree with this idea:

"From 1987 until 1996, one out of every 5,102 Black women died in childbirth. The number for white women was one out of every 18,868.

This disturbing disparity has remained relatively constant over the past four decades. This particular gap ranks among the highest in U.S. public health. And it comes at a time when the overall infant mortality rate has decreased.

The U.S. health care system is a vital institution riddled with racism. The only concern of this profit-driven industry is to rake in billions of dollars. Health care under capitalism is creating a genocidal crisis for millions of people.

Only a social revolution can assure that health care can be a right for all and not just a privilege for those who can afford it."

Of course, Black people have yet to resort to the "sex with virgins" tactic utilized by Africans in Africa to get rid of AIDS/HIV, but you never know what could happen here in America.

Health care access in America is limited, as we have discussed, and unfairly is not available to Black people:

"Dr. Satcher examined U.S. mortality rates for African Americans and whites between 1960 and 2000. While the infant mortality rate for African Americans improved overall, the black-white gap during those years actually worsened for infants and for African American men age 35 and older. Blacks suffered 40.5 percent more deaths -- 83,570 deaths -- than would have been expected if they were white, according to the study.

...He identified four reasons that contributed to the gap between black and white males: Health care access expansions have consistently excluded nonelderly, nondisabled adult men; black men have not experienced the same improvements in income inequality; there was a spike in gun-related deaths between 1983 and 1995; and the death rate related to HIV infection disproportionately affected communities of color"

Hmm... the four points made can be reduced to not saving money for the future and "no homo"...

Stuff Black People Don't Like sadly includes listening to the CDC, for that organization exists to benefit all Americans and ensure that diseases do not become epidemics. STDs are an epidemic in the Black community and AIDS/HIV is rapidly decimating the 'no homo' Black community, even though Black people do not like gay marriage.

Black people need to listen CDC, because when universal health care passes the white people who pay for it might not let it last for long.

#132. The Birther Movement

Black people don’t like to be challenged. We have discussed what happens when Black people don’t cooperate with the police and now, something much greater is transpiring in America: white people are questioning whether or not Barack Obama was born in the United States and thus eligible to the President of the United States.

Deemed “Birthers” by the media, these white people have the audacity of incredulity to question whether or Mein Obama was born in Hawaii, Kenya, the United States or elsewhere. To Black people, it doesn’t matter where he was born, for he is the messiah and Ozymandias rolled into one, the actual manifestation of the comic book character in Watchmen.

Like the character in the comic, Obama hopes to unite the world and bring about a glorious reign of peace, tolerance - and like the character in the comic, through any means necessary - and universal healthcare for all. Yet white people believe deception is afoot, primarily through the illegality of the Obama presidency, since no birth certificate has yet to be provided establishing him as a natural born citizen.

These “Birthers” are to Black people the ultimate manifestation of racism, despite the fact that 96 percent of Black people voted for Obama in 2008’s election, and 97 percent of Black people still support the president despite the faltering economy and ineffectiveness of his policies.

These numbers of Black people and their monolithic support of their Ozymandias, their Mein Obama, is not a conspiracy, yet the notion that the Brithers’ hold is laughed at by the media and denounced as a wild conspiracy:

“Conspiracy theories about the legitimate citizenship of President of the United States Barack Obama, and other challenges to his eligibility to become President have circulated before and after his victory in the presidential election of 2008. The primary engine of these theories are a number of fringe activists and political opponents nicknamed "birthers", who allege that he was not born in Hawaii, meaning that he is not a natural born citizen in their view, and thus not eligible to be President of the United States under Article Two of the U.S. Constitution.”

The Birthers have been denounced by many people as racist, a puerile attempt to persuade other people of Barack Obama’s infallibility, and yet to Black people, all they are doing is blaspheming a God-King. The monolithic support that Black people have for Obama will never go away, as he single-handily rescued Black people from the shackles of Pre-Obama America, a world so dreary and white that it had to be permanently put out to the pasture:

"It's racist," said Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC. "It's racist. Just call it for what it is."

Now, the Birthers have been lumped into another group of people who are also engaging in spontaneous protests. Those who are against socialized medicine are now deemed allies of the Birthers as they attempt to hold hostage the debate about the complete government takeover of medicine.

Black people are all for this – socially medicine – for Black people are, as a group, not represented in healthcare coverage as well as white people:

“The health insurance coverage rates for non-Hispanic whites who reported a single race was 89.3 percent. For blacks and Asians who reported a single race, the rates were 79.8 percent and 81.6 percent, respectively.”

Or, as Pat Buchanan wrote about who will benefit from the healthcare reform:

“Who are the principal beneficiaries? The 47 million uninsured who will be covered. Who are the principal losers? The elderly sick who, in the name of controlling costs, are going to lose benefits, be denied care at the end of their lives and have their lives shortened. For half of all health-care costs are in the last six months of life, and cost control is priority No. 1.

Here is where the disparate impact hits. Among those who benefit most—the uninsured—African-Americans, Hispanics and immigrants are overrepresented. Among the biggest losers—seniors and the elderly sick—well over 80 percent are white.”

To Black people, those elderly white people are vestiges of the defeated Pre-Obama America, and they are mere casualties in the Age of Obama and his Ozymandias’ rise to power and potential of uniting the world.

One writer has this to say about the white people who oppose the healthcare reform:

“But they’re probably reacting less to what Mr. Obama is doing, or even to what they’ve heard about what he’s doing, than to who he is.

That is, the driving force behind the town hall mobs is probably the same cultural and racial anxiety that’s behind the “birther” movement, which denies Mr. Obama’s citizenship. Senator Dick Durbin has suggested that the birthers and the health care protesters are one and the same; we don’t know how many of the protesters are birthers, but it wouldn’t be surprising if it’s a substantial fraction.”

Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution went one further when questioned about the racial animosity these white Birthers and ‘minority healthcare deniers’ believed:

“Oh, I’m just guessing, this is just off the cuff. I’d guess 45 – 65% of the people who appear at these groups are people who will never be comfortable with a black president.”

Black people, as we have discussed, are stubborn. They have lined up behind their Ozymandias in hopes that Mein Obama will bestow upon them the riches of Pre-Obama America.

Stuff Black People Don’t Like will include the Birthers, a nativist movement spawned by white people who still cling to the hope that Pre-Obama America will return. It is gone forever. Black people know this and that is why they don’t like white people banding together, for they fear that they might begin to think about what comes after the Age of Obama.

The health care issue is just another example of white people understanding identity politics and that is another SBPDL altogether.