Racist Medical Theories
“LOOK BACK TO THE LATE 18TH CENTURY, TO THE VERY BEGINNINGS OF THE U.S., AND YOU WILL SEE BLACK LIVES IN THIS COUNTRY DID NOT SEEM TO MATTER AT ALL.”
.The infant mortality rate was estimated at one time to be as high as 50%.
·?Slaveholders justified their treatment?by relying on the widely accepted view of Black inferiority and the physical differences between Blacks and whites.
·???????Racist medical theory, the racist notion that the blacks were inherently inferior and animal-like who needed maltreatment to be sound for work,?was a critical element.
·This treatment began in slave dungeons, built by Europeans on the coastal shores of Africa, where enslaved Blacks awaited shipment to the New World. In Ghana, for example, perhaps 200 were cloistered in tiny spaces where they ate, slept, urinated and defecated.
Foremost among the?unrelenting cruelties?heaped upon enslaved people was the lack of health care for them. Infants and children fared especially poorly. After childbirth, mothers were forced to return to the fields as soon as possible, often having to leave their infants without care or food. The infant mortality rate was?estimated at one time to be as high as 50%. Adult people who were enslaved who showed signs of exhaustion or?depression?were often beaten.
The claim: “The “father of modern gynecology” J. Marion Sims performed experiments on Black female slaves without anesthesia.”
“Other viral social media?posts?point to a portrait of Sims and a Black patient. The caption says: "After perfecting the techniques on black enslaved woman with out anesthesia in America, Sims went on to offer the procedure in Europe to wealthy white women who were sedated. This man is arguably the most famous American surgeon of the 19th century. I see him no different than Josef Megele (sic) both pure monsters”
“IN THE BOOK, SHE ALSO HIGHLIGHTS THE DISPARITIES IN OBSTETRIC AND PAIN CARE BLACK WOMEN FACE.”
“Anushay Hossain didn't consider that her childbirth might not go well. She certainly didn't consider she might face death.
“After all, she was in the United States, where medicine was advanced and doctors were to be trusted. Compared to her upbringing in Bangledesh, where "the concept of women's health hardly existed," she felt safe”
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Excerpts from ‘IRONY’:
“The second method employed is through social exclusion, a process in which individuals or entire communities of people are systematically blocked from (or denied full access to) various rights, opportunities, and resources that are normally available to members of a different group, and which are fundamental to social integration within that particular group (e.g., housing, employment, healthcare, civic engagement, democratic participation, and due process). From its birth America has this in its history.”
The Western World saw Rome as the first super power. Rome’s powerful military forces were very ruthless in the beginning and expanded through invasions and occupations. After the Punic Wars (146 BC) and the destruction of Carthage, the Roman Emperor Augustus (27 B C – 14 AD), adopted a new policy to assimilate the people of North Africa. Augustus built a very sophisticated city – far from the center of Rome called Timgad. In this ancient North African city, we may find some answers to how Rome was able to maintain and rule its vast empire and enable its citizens to becoming empowered.
After the decline of Rome’s imperial power, the influx of the Eastern Germanic tribes (barbarians) took and ruled the lands once held by Rome (the Western Empire fell, AD 476, ushering the Dark Ages). ?These Barbarians were known as Angles, Saxons and Jutes, who hailed from Northern Germany and Denmark. In time, the Barbarians came of age with his religion, laws, and system of governance. Despite his appreciation of philosophy, art and other sophistry, and despite his writings on the rights of man, he has not lost his primal instinct for barbarity.
F. Roy Willis, Professor of History University of California wrote in the International World History Project, on The Germanic Tribes, and Huns, “There is a deep strain of violence which has permeated Western Civilization and it has existed from the birth of the West.??Only the West has made war on such a grand scale...all over the world and with unmatched destructiveness.” He noted, though Western Civilization was born from war and has lived and thrived by war in order for it to survive it now must abandon total war.
The history of the arrival of the Anglo-Saxon on the world stage provides us with an array of vexing conclusions.
The phenomena of European Christianity, foraying into the New World is one that witnessed moments of extreme religious and philosophical perversion. This perversion defied the spiritual message of Christ’s Sermon on the Mount. In the Sermon, Matthew 5:3-12. ..
But in this story, we will see periods within which these invaders displayed a deprave indifference for human life. And yet, the justification given for this endeavor was to provide the New World heathens with much needed knowledge of the Christian religion. The real question from the reader should be who is the real heathen in this scenario? Who really needed this knowledge? Journey through these pages for the real answer; it is ironic.
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