MAGA MAN (12-14-2018)
MAGA MAN (12-14-2018)
It is not irrational as an initial reaction, but it is very irrational if you want to improve the situation in the future. I think hating anybody is irrational. You can disagree strongly with their view on race, but find the person to have many positive traits not related to racial issues.
By whatever means necessary
If that was the only article or study this conclusion was based on, you might have a point. But it isn't, nor are black mortality rates. We aren't talking just about mortality rates, we're talking about people who kill themselves and why. Specifically, 'deaths of despair.'
'Deaths of despair' see massive spike in U.S.
Isolation and growing economic anxiety exact significant toll, particularly on less-educated rural residents
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...ug-fueled-dea/
'Deaths of despair' in rural America
A study published on Wednesday in the Journal of General Internal Medicine offers an additional explanation: declining health and rising death rates in rural Republican bastions helped tilt the presidential election toward Trump.
"Changes in life expectancy were an independent factor in voting choices. Reduced health prospects are an important marker of dissatisfaction, discouragement, hopelessness, and fear — sentiments that may have resonated with voters who sided with President Trump," said Dr. Lee Goldman, the study leader and chief executive of the Columbia University Medical Center.
Other studies have added more elements to the economic anxiety narrative too. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that Trump voters were driven over a fear of losing their status. Last year, a Public Religion Research Institute survey of more than 3,000 people found that fears of cultural displacement pushed the white working class toward Trump.
White Americans from rural America, with less education and lower income levels, voted disproportionately for Trump, according to the Columbia study. This group is increasingly victim to "deaths of despair" related to alcohol, drugs and suicide, the researchers said.
They also find that counties with a net gain in individuals who voted for the Republican candidate had a 15 percent higher age-adjusted death rate in 2015 than counties with a net gain in Democratic voters. The increase in death rates due to "deaths of despair" was also 2.5 times higher in counties where Republicans made gains, compared with counties where Democrats made gains.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/04/deat...udy-finds.html
I could post article after article, study after study that all point out the same conclusions. One can accept those conclusions or not.
If you'd like to discuss black mortality rates in another thread I'd have no problem with that .. but this isn't that.
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
MAGA MAN (12-14-2018)
LV426 (12-14-2018)
Respectfully, you haven't walked in these shoes brother.
I have no use for racists .. couldn't care less what happens to them .. and racists in no regard improves any situation.
They undoubtedly owned much of the past, but they will not own the future. That doesn't come by being nice or accommodating to them. It comes through firmly and unflinchingly standing against them and everything they believe. It comes through holding them in disgust and contempt. It comes through rejecting their very presence in the conversation.
See them as evil, know them as ignorant, nothing less.
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
MAGA MAN (12-14-2018)
Every life matters
MAGA MAN (12-14-2018)
AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.
In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.
MAGA MAN (12-14-2018)
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