Opinion | Why the #Coronavirus Is Killing African Americans - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/opinion/coronavirus-race-obesity.html
Rejet de l’explication obésité (différence minime avec les Blancs) et des facteurs innés ; depuis l’esclavage l’organisme des Noirs est affaibli par des conditions de vie beaucoup plus difficiles que celles des Blancs.
Ibram X. Kendi has written that the “irresponsible behavior of disproportionately poor people of color” — often cited as an important factor in health disparities — is a scapegoat directing American’s attention from the centrality of systemic racism in current racial health inequities.
Evaluating the inadequate and questionable data about race, weight and Covid-19 complications with these insights in mind makes it clear that obesity — and its affiliated, if incorrect implication of poor lifestyle choices — should not be front and center when it comes to understanding how this pandemic has affected African-Americans. Even before Covid-19, black Americans had higher rates of multiple chronic illnesses and a lower life expectancy than white Americans, regardless of weight. This is an indication that our social structures are failing us. These failings — and the accompanying embrace of the belief that black bodies are uniquely flawed — are rooted in a shameful era of American history that took place hundreds of years before this pandemic.
