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David Njoku
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Question for people who know science.

I know that race is a social construct. The fact that I'm 'Black' has no meaning beyond my melanin levels. It doesn't, for instance, make me a better rapper than you. Culture might, but melanin doesn't.

So why are there medical differences between races? Black women have more fibroids, & have their babies a week earlier than white women. And Black men are more prone to type 2 diabetes.

Why's that? Culture? Racism? Something else?

#blackmastodon #science
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What's it to you? · 12w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqafz9jadkpqzaedvclkth4vcm6q9fsvy6mfddq0ufwjpy4gptlwxqs0ryua I was going to write about haplogroups, but your other reply made me think about impressions of medical commonality despite underlying genetic diversity ... How has the diaspora affecte...
MinmiTheDino · 12w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqafz9jadkpqzaedvclkth4vcm6q9fsvy6mfddq0ufwjpy4gptlwxqs0ryua I found this to be a very interesting paper that basically found that Black babies born to immigrants had normal birthweight, but the next generation had lower birthweight. They posit th...
·J Mopp · 12w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqafz9jadkpqzaedvclkth4vcm6q9fsvy6mfddq0ufwjpy4gptlwxqs0ryua One of the examples of a race-based health trait that people mention is sickle-cell trait. But this is an adaptation to malaria, and parts of Africa which do not have malaria, like most ...
Hélène · 10w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqafz9jadkpqzaedvclkth4vcm6q9fsvy6mfddq0ufwjpy4gptlwxqs0ryua (very interesting subject and answers, and I'm amazed every Masto pal can talk about it without any fight occurring, what a marvelous place !)