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Jacob Blake is paraplegic and handcuffed to a bed. People with spinal cord injuries don’t usually die from the spinal cord injury. They die in the hospital from pneumonia and pressure sores caused by not moving around. This is a lynching https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/father-of-jacob-blake-reveals-his-son-is-handcuffed-to-hospital-bed-news.116800.html
TW for medical trauma, racism, eugenics
an example of how differently Black disabled people are treated from white disabled people, and also how medical trauma can and does kill- this is an attempt at lynching and eugenics, weaponizing his disability for anti-Black purposes
an example of how differently Black disabled people are treated from white disabled people, and also how medical trauma can and does kill- this is an attempt at lynching and eugenics, weaponizing his disability for anti-Black purposes
Medical racism, anti-Blackness, ableism and eugenics tied up in one horrific act of brutality. Handcuffing a person who’s recently had a spinal cord injury is a death sentence. Period.
Amazing piece from Harvard MD/MPP candidate @TomiOjo3
"It is time to start naming racism, and not race, as a risk factor for disease." https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2020/06/12/anti-racism-in-medicine-hospitals-ayotomiwa-ojo
"It is time to start naming racism, and not race, as a risk factor for disease." https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2020/06/12/anti-racism-in-medicine-hospitals-ayotomiwa-ojo
and from @NadraKareem
Studies routinely find that Black patients don’t receive the same standard of care as their white counterparts. https://www.thoughtco.com/racism-in-health-care-still-a-problem-2834530
Studies routinely find that Black patients don’t receive the same standard of care as their white counterparts. https://www.thoughtco.com/racism-in-health-care-still-a-problem-2834530
Lack of movement after SCI causes pneumonia, pulmonary embolism (blood clots), or septicemia (blood infection) because of lack of movement and pressure sores. SCI patients need to be turned and repositioned regularly. https://www.medscape.com/answers/793582-161650/what-is-the-life-expectancy-and-mortality-of-spinal-cord-injury-sci#:~:text=Originally%20the%20leading%20cause%20of,%2C%20pulmonary%20embolism%2C%20or%20septicemia.
I am sorry for not adding an initial content warning. I acted on impulse, but- it’s important that everyone knows that this is even beyond psychological cruelty and physical torture- if he indeed did just experience an SCI, it’s a second attempted murder in my humble opinion.
