Reply #5: Sanctioned ethnic cleansing at work

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Kaiser Health Disparities Report: A Weekly Look at Race, Ethnicity and Health. Health disparity statistics reinforce that lives are unnecessarily cut short each year largely due to preventable chronic diseases. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the age-adjusted death rate for African Americans was higher than that of whites by 41 percent for stroke, 30 percent for heart disease, 25 percent for cancer, and more than 750 percent for HIV disease in 2002.

A 2003 study by the National Institutes of Medicine found that minorities were more likely to receive a poorer quality of care even when they had the same level of health insurance access as Whites.

U.S. Human Rights Report. According to the census result in March 2003, the income of black people with bachelor degree was 24.5 percent lower than white people with same degree, that of black people with master degree 21.2 percent lower than white people with same degree, and that of black people with doctoral degree 28.1 percent lower than white people (see USA Today on Sept. 9, 2003).

Blacks were / are dying from lack of access to treatment of preventable diseases at alarming rates long before health care disparities became topical.

DOJ Civil Rights Chief Tanner was RIGHT. Blacks are just DYING.

Everyone is / was excited about Blackwater in Iraq, but when they entered into New Orleans after Katrina shooting up the place, no connection to its outrageous behavior against U.S. citizens was made. After Blackwater entered NOLA, all deaths were dated the same day as Katrina.

Hundreds of black children under the control of LA child protected services were missing after Katrina and few paid attention to prisoners left in jails during Katrina to drown.