Are Blacks Really Medically-Different?
@mythociate (21432)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
July 15, 2015 3:34pm CST
EBONY Magazine says that Blacks--though typically-prone to some diseases--don't submit to "clinical trials" at the same rate as Whites and therefore -don't receive the proper medical-attention they might if they volunteered more-often.
That confuses me again. I 'get' that Blacks (whom I am NOT calling 'African-American' because a large percentage of them have scarcely even BEEN to Africa, let-alone 'being FROM there' ... I mean, if you wanna-- ... saving that for aNother thread 
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I get that Blacks "profit from a traumatic past" (almost like I do---bemoaning aspects of that past when they see traces of it manifesting-again in the present, but still taking advantage of it as though present/future people still owe them for it), but--maybe the traumas of American-slavery & -segregation/discrimination are part of the reason-why many Blacks today don't trust clinical-trials.
What do you think?
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I get that Blacks "profit from a traumatic past" (almost like I do---bemoaning aspects of that past when they see traces of it manifesting-again in the present, but still taking advantage of it as though present/future people still owe them for it), but--maybe the traumas of American-slavery & -segregation/discrimination are part of the reason-why many Blacks today don't trust clinical-trials.
What do you think?Doctor Danielle N. Lee writes about cultural trust-issues.
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@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
16 Jul 15
I think the medical industry needs to work on winning their trust back if that's even possible. I really can't say I blame them after the horrible experiments that were done to them in the past. I would not do one either.
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
16 Jul 15
And I guess that's the same kind of mistrust that makes people 'not give their names, email-addresses, postal-addresses, phone-numbers, etc.' Because some people--if they have one-or-more of those pieces of information--take it as 'permission to have any/all pieces of information (including money-codes).'
