What would save more black lives: a concerted effort to eliminate Vitamin D deficiency or getting rid of every police department in every majority black area?
We KNOW that persons of color suffer very disproportionately from Vitamin D deficiency. Their skin is calibrated to tropical sun. They get the right amount in Uganda and the Congo, presumably.
But if you live in Cleveland, and are black, you are most likely deficient from October through May.
And we KNOW that being D deficient leads to ALL SORTS of bad health outcomes. You are more likely to die from all infectious diseases, your bones are weaker, and you are most likely more depressed.
And obviously getting rid of law enforcement in places where laws are being broken leads to more laws being broken. It leads to innocent blacks being victimized at much higher rates by guilty blacks. If 97% of a community is honest, and 3% is not, you have a complete shit show without cops, as Minneapolis and other places are discovering.
So let me ask a slightly more difficult question: what would HELP black folks more, educating about Vitamin D and providing free or subsidized supplements (maybe with Magnesium), or increasing the size of the Juneteenth Celebration?
That’s not much harder, is it?
I will post on Juneteenth later.
I will actually post my train of thought, too. I will remind you that one of my “spirit animals” is a white dog which is very friendly, but very curious and with zero attention span (the attention is the whale).
I was thinking about my bar idea, and remembered meeting a black guy in a bar who told me he hung out at a bar in Alabama that both had illegal gambling and allowed drunk patrons to sleep in the parking lot, which was allowed since it was private property. I think the local cops were also on the take.
But I was like, THAT is kind of my idea. Not as good, but in the ballpark. It’s such an obvious idea somebody somewhere has thought of it and done it.
And then I remember he told me his doctor told him he was Vitamin D deficient. He had been feeling tired and lacking in energy, and the doctor told to take 50,000 iu once a week for a month. He had been find in south Florida, but even just moving to Alabama he got less sun.
Then: black people and Vitamin D.
And this is a de facto racial difference. Living the exact same lives, white and black people will suffer from deficiencies at different rates.
And think about this too: do you not just KNOW that, in the same way Democrats are preventing needed educational reforms from happening, that many would also find ways to oppose a Vitamin D campaign since the racial differences in health outcomes are something they use for their political goals? I feel certain of it. They won’t say it, obviously, but they don’t want improvement. They want reliable misery that can be funneled into power, prestige and private wealth.