(Source: apeninacoquinete, via josefadamu)
“According to the CDC, black mothers in the U.S. die at three to four times the rate of white mothers, one of the widest of all racial disparities in women’s health.”
America has one of the worst maternal death rates in the developed world, and it’s sO much worse for black mothers. Not even Beyoncé or Serena were exempted.
Because of structural racism, black people are more likely to grow up in poverty. We are more likely to be raised in households where our parents are forced to worry more about things like police brutality, housing and workplace discrimination, unemployment rates that are routinely twice that of white people, and so on.
Beyoncé and Serena are wealthy now, but they didn’t grow up wealthy, and their parents weren’t particularly wealthy. And their grandparents weren’t either. And so on. It’s *lifetimes* worth of economic and environmental racism, and it’s the result of GENERATIONAL disparities. The effects of racism are cumulative - generations of forced inequality add up to take their toll on black people’s health, especially black women.
The fact that as wealthy as they are, and able to access the best prenatal healthcare available, even Beyoncé and Serena were nearly victims of maternal mortality is PROOF that “past” racism still systematically effects black people today. Including those of wealth.
All that, without even getting into how day-to-day racial stresses also take their toll on the health of black women.
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soih:
HR: if they work 40 hours a week u have to give them benefits
Big company: hmm okay. They shall work 39
HR: if they work 8 hours u have to give them a half hour lunch and intermittent breaks
company: 7 hours and 50 minutes, it is
the law: if theyre employees you have to pay for benefits
company: lets staff through a temp service and wait so long to hire them in they quit out of frustration
the law: You must pay them this and no less.
company: I shall pay them that and no more.
The law: you have to pay your employees
Company: then we’ll replace them all with interns
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If you’re Caribbean, you grew up hearing this at all the grown-up parties! 😂🇯🇲
Every weekend
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“I know this transformation is painful, but you’re not falling apart; you’re just falling into something different, with a new capacity to be beautiful.”
— William C. Hannan (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
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