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sheshe2

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3. Tim Wise is a dynamic speaker.
Fri Jan 17, 2014, 12:35 AM
Jan 2014

I have only listened to part of it. Yet read the transcript.

This study found that between
1991 and 2000, there were almost one million black people in this country who died who
would not have died had they merely been white and had the average health care
quality and access of the typical white person in this country,


That is a terrifying statistic! Had they been white...had they been white! Damn, I love this country yet I hate the people that advocate the suffering.

Almost one million excess dead
people, in this case black folks, who wouldn’t have died had the system of health care
access and exposure to toxins been equal between white folks and black folks. How is a
million dead black people not news?


And there was Katrina...







There were bodies, I can not post them. This! Another example of AA left behind, while the clueless Privileged partied on...



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