Cultural Killing

FREAKING AMAZINGLY, African-Americans and Hispanics die of Covid 19 at a far great rate, die giving birth, die in infancy, and die in all sorts of other ways at a far higher rate than Europeanic-Americans.  Sure, everyone has to die, but...why? Why the worse outcomes for minorities in a wealthy, high tech country with great medical care? No less amazing is that sustained systematic research yields the answer, because many many researchers have asked the same question, and have done the necessary homework. the answer is systemic racism within the medical profession, within the public health system, as well as throughout the rest of American society. We already know that racism is baked into our criminal justice system and legal systems, hard wired into American culture by our enslaved origins. There is no arguing this. That the American medical system does not escape racism really shouldn't seem surprising in the most racist culture in human history, but, somehow, it is. For those among you who are inclined to dismiss, ridicule, take umbrage with, or scream disagreement and denial at all this, by which I mean redneck conservatives, please bear in mind that you are not arguing with me, you are arguing with Harvard, with the experts, with thousands of researchers and scholars who know a great deal more about the subject than you or I ever will. conservatives tend to reject expertise, and think they know more than the experts, but of course, that is nonsense, the experts, in all fields, have most of the answers. In the United States of Avoidance we prefer escape entertainment to openly confronting the most important issues, such as this one. A high percentage of the caucasian community, of which I am a member, incredibly seems to believe that racism became extinct the very moment that the white demographic acknowledged that the murder of Martin Luther King was unfortunate, a bad idea. I refer to the redneck conservative community, by which I mean all American right wingers, the same folks who deny climate change, deny that Covid 19 is a problem or that wearing a mask is a good idea, deny racism, deny that capitalism has flaws, and deny that Donald Trump is a pathological liar, and lost the election. Perhaps you begin to get the point. Denial of reality in American, of which we currently have a epidemic, does not span the political spectrum. It is the exclusive domain of right wing America, and every day that right wing America denies the reality of systemic racism, climate change, Trump's election defeat, or a host of other realities, it bears this fact out. In essence,it is not racism within the medical profession which kills minorities at a high rate, it is the persistence of extreme conservatism.