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Black Babies Are Still Dying—And America Let It Happen

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Black Babies Are Still Dying—And America Let It Happen

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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to United States | News & Politics@midwest.socialEnglish · 9 days ago

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — By the 2010s, the rate had declined to 1,073 per 100,000 for Black infants and 499 per 100,000 for white infants, yet the disparity grew to a mortality ratio of 2.15.

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And black on black homicide? Racism causing that?

I’m well aware that Lemmy is a faaaaaaar left commie platform.
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  Classic symptom of an impoverished community. Could be caused by systemic racism or historical events.

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