For Our People, Hospitals Are Part Of A Deadly Legacy
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 8 April 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
The Civil Rights movement was supposed to be about equality, but for many sick Black people, it made matters worse. Today, the effects of poor health continue to get worse for our people. How did it all go wrong?
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| 0:28.0 | fees may apply free delivery England only. The Civil Rights Movement was supposed to be about equality, but for many sick black people, it made matters worse. |
| 0:42.0 | Today, the effects of poor health continue to get |
| 0:45.8 | worse for our people. How did it all go wrong? This is two-minute black history. |
| 0:51.8 | What you didn't learn in school. hospitals are off. Hospitals are often praised as models for the success of desegregation. |
| 1:18.6 | So why do black patients get injured and even get infected with new diseases at a much higher rate than white people who go to the exact same hospitals. |
| 1:29.0 | Why do black mothers die during childbirth three times as often. There's a long history there. |
| 1:37.6 | Let's begin with enslavement ended, black people were in poor health. Many were disabled from white terrorism and others suffered from male ailments. |
| 2:03.7 | Even when the government created programs for our help, |
| 2:06.9 | white people complained until access was revoked. |
| 2:11.9 | And then there's Medicare. Though hospitals are praised for their speed in desegregating facilities, |
| 2:19.4 | the truth is they only integrated under the threat of losing federal dollars from Medicare, not in response to |
| 2:27.2 | civil rights legislation. Further, white hospitals receiving government funds put black hospitals out of business once Medicare |
| 2:36.4 | legislation was signed in 1965. |
| 2:40.6 | Don't forget about discrimination. |
| 2:43.0 | Even after integration, white hospitals still found ways to discriminate. |
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