Wednesday, October 3, 2007 ON
THE TERRORDOME: Lies and Truth About Fears of “Acting White”
CJSR FM88
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6 PM Mountain Time
Sociologist Algernon Austin, author of Getting It Wrong: How Black Public Intellectuals are Failing Black America, discusses lies and truth about Afrikamerica, and the surprising identity of who is spreading the lies. We’ll hear from Austin about which distortions are being disseminated about Afrikan Americans and how careful research and straightforward reading of easily available evidence demands an overturning of many popular myths, including the notion that Black students avoid their studies for fear of “acting White.” That’s all on tonight’s edition of The Terrordome: The Afrika All-World News Service.
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From Separate and Unequal: Racial Segregation and Disparities in Quality Across U.S. Nursing Homes:
"Black residents," the authors of a study published in Health Affairs (September/October 2007) report "are more likely to live in poor-quality nursing homes." Blacks reside in highly segregated nursing home facilities. The highest nursing-home segregation was found in the Midwest.
"Black nursing home residents were 1.41 times as likely as whites to be in facilities cited with a deficiency causing actual harm or immediate jeopardy to residents, and 1.7 times as likely to be in a nursing home that was subsequently terminated from Medicare and Medicaid participation because of poor quality. In addition, blacks were 1.12 times as likely as whites to reside in a nursing home that was greatly understaffed, and 2.64 times as likely to be in a facility housing predominantly Medicaid residents."
