I am reminded of an anecdote I read many years ago where a White doctor talked about delivering Black babies by forceps because he couldn't be bothered to wait

I am reminded of an anecdote I read many years ago where a White doctor talked about delivering Black babies by forceps because he couldn't be bothered to wait around and give such children the time he gave White children to come into this world without such brutal intervention. I read a study many years ago from a country that valued boy children over girls. Boys -- especially first-born boys -- were more likely to be fed their favorite foods, taken to the doctor the same day instead of "in the morning" and so forth. These were relatively small things, like delaying seeing a doctor by a few hours, and nothing anyone would likely characterize as abuse of the girls, yet the difference could be measured in terms of mortality. Think about this: You can die of dehydration in as little as two days and you can die of lack of oxygen within minutes. These are not stats for people of frail health or something. Anyone can die of lack of oxygen within minutes, no matter their current state of health. Making excuses and saying "But they must have been in a weakened state to begin with or something..." amounts to denial of the racism that we all know is rampant within this country.