In case you're historically illiterate, the claim that Black people are more resistant to tropical diseases and thus better suited to manual labor in the Caribbean was a central part of the justification for creation of the transatlantic slave trade and the use of Africans in chattel slavery.
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Imani Gandy
RFK saying that “Blacks” have better immune systems and shouldn’t get the same vaccines as white people should be disqualifying. But we live in really dumb times.
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-science-history/article/question-of-racial-immunity-to-yellow-fever-in-history-and-historiography/06F936B582047119C35C76F538C5EE46