Older Black Men Dying Disproportionately After Surgery

"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death." - Dr. King

"For decades millions of Black folks don’t trust the health care system in America, with good reason cause its racist! Too many Black folks go in the hospital and die after they get out.” - CNK

Health studies for decades have repeatedly shown that Black patients’ experiences with the U.S. health care system are worse than those of white patients at almost every stage, from infancy to geriatric care.

I remember as a child I would often hear older Blacks say that too many folks they knew had went in the hospital to have surgery then released and died within weeks; what they said was over 50 years ago, it was true then and its true now.

So it’s not surprising that Black patients have higher rates of post-surgical deaths across a wide range of surgical procedures. Moreover, the past several decades research has shown that Black patients in the United States tend to fare worse than their white counterparts do after undergoing major surgical procedures.

Studies have found 20–50 percent higher rates of mortality among Black patients, compared to white patients. A paper published in Pediatrics found that after surgery, Black children had greater odds than white children of developing complications such as sepsis, unplanned reintubation or reoperation, and severe bleeding. Black children also had a nearly 3.5 times higher chance of dying within 30 days of surgery.

Regarding Black males, Black men have a higher death rate within 30 days of surgery compared with any other subgroup of race and sex according to a study of adults in the United States published in The BMJ. This inequality in death rate was mainly observed for elective, or planned, surgeries, where the death rate for Black men was 50% higher than that of White men.

Happy Black Fathers Day

“Every day when a Black man wakes up he faces violent attacks or character assassination by white supremacy, by other non-Blacks, and by many Black men and women. So I salute Black men who under these daily relentless, stressful, and demoralizing attacks can still be responsible and good fathers.” - CNK

Black Men Let Us Stop Attacking Each Other!

 “We Black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load.” - Malcolm X

Ebook: "Stanley Tookie Williams Redemption Basic Tenets"

My ebook "Stanley Tookie Williams Redemption Basic Tenets" is dedicated to the memory and redemption Legacy of Stanley ‘Tookie’ Williams. 

To transform himself Tookie engaged in a redemption process through self-discipline struggle to redeem himself from a Crips legacy of Black-on-Black self-hatred, self-defeat, self-destruction, fratricide, and community destruction.

By some accounts some 15,000 Black males in South Central Los Angeles have were murdered over a 30-year period (1970–2000) in gang warfare between the Crips and the Bloods.

Tookie also created the ‘Internet Project for Street Peace’ to reduce gang violence; he authored nine anti-gang books instructing youth how not to follow in his footsteps. In 2001 Tookie was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times and the Nobel Prize in literature four times; he is the only man in history to be nominated while imprisoned.

It is my belief that Tookie initially was wrongfully convicted ‘racist injustice’ and then intentionally executed in prison because of his self-transformation redemption and Black consciousness that made him a threat due to his positive transforming influence on all Black gangs.

The combination of a contempt and fearful attitude toward young, Black male gang members has resulted in families, communities, churches, schools, human service agencies, and municipalities neglecting their psycho-socioeconomic issues; wrongfully blaming them for all the woes in Black communities creating an 'us against them' scenario.

This disgust and phobia leads to stereotyping, scapegoating, ignoring, neglecting, and writing-off Black male gang members as Stanley Tookie Williams stated:

“The Black community generally was blind to its defiant youth creating increasingly aggressive street gangs. Mislabeled by some as a lost generation, we were instead forgotten prodigies who disappeared, children buried alive in a sandbox. We did what was necessary to exhume ourselves. Though we must share the blame, we were products of a culture that bastardized us.”

As a Black community whether we like it or not Black gangs ‘street organizations’ are integral parts of our communities consisting of Black male youth and young adults of our communities. They are influential albeit destructively, they should not be isolated but embraced; dialogued with and challenged; provided guidance and effective ‘relevant’ counseling.

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Black Men's Love More Important Than Dollars

May is Mental Health Month: Black Men Check Your Thoughts Out

"As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It is the presence of human consciousness that brings meaning into the world. And through our consciousness, we create the world we live in. In other words, the kind of world you exist in reflects the kind of consciousness that you have. And notice if you change your consciousness or change your values and orientation, you enter into a different world. You interact with different people. Social situations that you might not have even recognized until you entered into a new level of consciousness. For instance, you see people who become addicted to crack or something, entering into a whole world and social system that before they became addicted, they hardly noticed. They picked up new friends, new relations and whole new ways of acting. New purposes in life. They lost old friends, broke with old families. In other words, the addictive consciousness brought into the world a new foreground and put other things into the background. Therefore, man’s consciousness is a creative act, and the kind of consciousness you have will determine the kind of world you create. Consequently, when you look at the world we live in as African people, we must recognize to a great extent it is not a world of our own creation. It is a world that has been created by the kind of consciousness we have permitted to be instilled in us as a people." - Dr. Amos Wilson

Black Male Rappers Rapping About Killing Each Other is Normal and Super-Profitable

"Currently the Hip-Hop industry highly based primarily on Black male rappers homicidal 'fratricidal' lyrics which contributes $10 billion to the U.S. economy. Three white male led companies (Warner Records, Universal Music Group, and Sony Music Group) control around 90% of the depiction of Hip Hop." - CNK

"As beneficiary of more than five hundred years of slavery, I was left only scattered remnants of a broken culture. Exposed to a multitude of ambiguous, mostly negative influences, I would pass through my young life with cultural neglect and a profound identity crisis. Though I knew I was Black, I had no real perspective on being Black. I had absorbed the common negative Black stereotypes that eventually made me despise my Blackness. My cultural awareness was zero. I needed a complete Black history course and a thorough de-programming. I had been duped into believing that all Black people were inhuman and inferior, that we had made no contribution to the forward thrust of civilization. Negative Black stereotypes were broadcast or implied by the news media, magazines, institutions, televisions, newspapers, books, and every other medium you can think of. Not to mention the countless delusional Blacks I met who believed the myth of Black inferiority. Their contempt for their own Blackness was so dynamic; they had subconsciously stepped outside themselves to assimilate with any cultural group other than their own. Their dys-education was complete. The more I was indoctrinated by lies about my Blackness, the more I grew to detest myself." - Stanley Tookie Williams