Louisiana Senator: Our Maternal Death Rates Are Only Bad If You Count Black Women
Louisiana Senator: Our Maternal Death Rates Are Only Bad If You Count Black Women
There's some truth to his statement as far as the numbers go and perhaps some correction is needed. Obviously, you wouldn't want to entirely remove the stats of African American women, as that would be blatantly racist, but it seems some for of compromise is warranted.
Perhaps counting only half of them? or perhaps slightly more than half, say 6/10ths
NGL, you had me going in the first half
This is gold satire.
We're not 52nd in the nation in education for nothing!
Perhaps counting only half of them? or perhaps slightly more than half, say 6/10ths
Very strong scientific and historical basis for going with 3/5ths. But if some stats make America look bad, I think 0/3rds would fix it, and fire the agency lead if they don't go with 0/5ths of a person for black women. America was great when it was 3/5ths, and so 0/5ths is needed immediately to make America great again before my 3rd term election.
Ah, I have a modest proposal. Let's count 60% of maternal deaths from black women. /s
A government can't possibly serve the whole population. /s
I might be wrong, Frank, but my reading of the text says that freed slaves fall under “the whole Number of free Persons” and thus count as 1, not three fifths.
The three fifths compromise just said slave states shouldn’t get to count slave population to get more representatives. The non-slave states wanted them not to count at all, since they don’t get representation regardless. It’s wild to me that we think of the “three fifths of all other persons” thing as the bad part, rather than the “rich assholes who owned people got more representation than those who didn’t own people because the people they owned counted toward their representative allotments.” After all, the slave owners wanted slaves to count as a full person. The problem, as always, was slavery.
We'll call it the...60% Compromise. Got a nice ring to it.
With gerrymandering that number is often much lower these days. We’ve ended up with even worse than the 3/5
Dudes a piece of shit still, but the article is 3 years old.
I’m sure those rates are way better now. Because of all the beautiful winning.
We wouldn't want people to forget what a racist Sen Bill Cassidy is.
I hope this article makes the rounds again next year, right around the time he is up for reelection.
"Our maternal death rates are only bad because of inherent racism in our medical industry"
As expected racist pieces of shit.
Damn there really isn't even a quiet part anymore is there
"For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality"
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May 20, 2022
And our mass shooting events are pretty low when you don't count bigoted white men.
Here's an article about it that can actually be read.
He continued: "Now, I say that not to minimize the issue but to focus the issue as to where it would be. For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality."
Maybe you should look into that, Senator.
Oh, it's probably just genetic, just like how black and Hispanic men are uniquely genetically qualified to labor in the fields ... /S
This is from 3 years ago.
So you're going to do something to lower the maternal death rate for black women, right?
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Funniest headline The Onion could have ever come up with!!!!
Maybe the medicaid cuts will make the black women count rise faster than the white women count, and that will make it ok :(
In an interview with Politico, the following words came out of Cassidy’s mouth: “About a third of our population is African American; African Americans have a higher incidence of maternal mortality. So, if you correct our population for race, we’re not as much of an outlier as it’d otherwise appear. Now, I say that not to minimize the issue but to focus the issue as to where it would be. For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality.”
Scum POS. I'm sure he will start fixing the issue instead contributing to it.
I think he's pointing out that this is a federal race-connected issue, not a local state issue. As in other states have similar stats if you group the numbers by race.
If that is correct, that's a fair assessment. He should obviously work with the rest of Congress to solve that national issue, though, and he should really spearhead it if it affects his state more.
Still a greater Louisiana problem
Overall, according to Louisiana's Department of Health, "four black mothers die for every white mother" in the state. It outpaces a three-to-one ratio nationwide, which is already the worst in the developed world, Politico reported.
https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-la-outlier-maternal-death-rate-skewed-black-women-2022-5
If only states were capable of doing things to improve the lives of their residents above what the nation as a whole can do. Clearly it's impossible. Woe be this poor powerless state politician.
Your justification doesn't hold within its own logic. And doesn't address how blatantly racist the statement itself is.
What an inbred donkey.
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A Louisiana Senator saying something racist? Not News worthy.
The quiet part out loud.
After midterms, especially if the republicans manage to cheat enough to still gain seats, some of them will go "Nr, nr, nr!" on live television, then racists will go "We're so fucking back!", then work on how to strip black Americans of their human rights with the help of Clarence Thomas.
Y’all need to appreciate that Louisiana’s batshit MAGAs finally ran the table and it’s something like a mix of Florida and Mississippi but with a lot more heat and pollution.
Donald Trump and his Nazi ass bullshit let people like this walk and talk free. Fuck all of them.
They’re even better if you only count white men
Those numbers can go down even further if you exclude everyone who isn’t a millionaire.
No, no they cannot.
NaN gang represent
Truly, the only demographic that matters, in cases like these. /s