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800,000 excess deaths could have been averted between 1991 and 2000 had African Americans’ health matched that of whites. That’s the equivalent of a Boeing 767 shot out of the sky and killing everyone on board every day, 365 days a year. And they are all black.
David Williams from Harvard School of Public Health (via “Race, Racial Inequality and Health Inequities: Separating Myth from Fact” by Smedley, Jeffries, Adelman, and Cheng)
So Fuck UP! America wake up!
So Fuck UP! America wake up!