Jack Hurst of The Tennessean reports on Metro plan addresses elevated infant mortality for blacks:
In Nashville, an African-American baby is nearly four times as likely to die as a white one.
That's according to the latest death certificate research by the Metro Health Department, which is gearing up an ambitious ''It Takes A Community'' campaign to change that.
Here we go again. Liberalistas, taking problems that are mainly economic and education related and staining them with the stigma of "race." This is junk science ladies and gentlemen. Is "an African-American baby is nearly four times as likely to die as a white one" really a true statement?
I highly doubt that a child born to upper class "black" parents is still four times as likely to die as a "white" child born to a single mother on welfare living in the projects. As such, conclusions drawn on these types of studies are flawed from the word go. Further, they continue to deal with people in terms of "race" membership as opposed to free-thinking individuals. Individuals make decisions to drink. Individuals decide to have unprotected sex. Individuals decide to drop out of school. Individuals can also decide to stop the cycle of dependency, clean up and get the hell out of the projects.
This isn't a "race" issue, it's an individual responsibility and educational issue. Until we decide to deal with people as individuals instead of as members of a particular "race," we are going to continue missing the forest for the trees. And babies will continue to die, simply because we can't "race" data our way out of issues rooted in individual responsibility.