They eventually put it back, but they pulled my book out, but left Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. Oh, my God. I guess that's everything, right? So that's one backdrop. But here's the thing. Black women statistically are the most likely to be at the bottom of almost every list. If you are looking at social pathologies, the things that cause harm, Black women are often the canaries in the coal mine. Our maternal mortality rates are higher, our poverty rates. So all of the things that attend either racism or sexism meet with black women. And societally, particularly at the time that he was growing up, black women were considered the dregs. (39:47–40:07)
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Asserts that Black women face higher rates of maternal mortality and poverty, and are often indicators of broader social issues.
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