i knew the colon cancer preventative health tweets were coming, y’all did the same shit with combat jack and it’s so tacky.
i see black men in their 40s and 50s having massive strokes and dropping dead and it’s not because of a lack of preventative care...it’s stress.
years of untreated anxiety, depression, hypertension, poor dieting, threats on your life from law enforcement and the community, financial inequity, manual labor, systematic racism...then, black men self medicate with drugs, alcohol and sex. early screening can’t fix it all
take a look into your local dialysis clinic. it’s full of black men in their 40s and 50s...otherwise healthy but on dialysis for the rest of their lives because of untreated hypertension. and most wont get a kidney.
boosie not even 40 and has struggled with diabetes and cancer. scarface not even 50 and was on dialysis. john singleton was 51 and a stroke killed him. and these are celebrities...think about everyday working black men. hard fast stressful living will kill you.
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