RFK Jr. in his Senate hearing last week just claimed that DEI is ruining healthcare. But let me show you what's really hurting public health. Black patients actually are three to type three to five times more likely to die during childirth. Yet RF cases DI is the problem. When in fact, Commonwealth Fund study studied in 2024 found that black patients receive 52% subpar care worse in the South. In a Senate hearing, RFK praised China's health care system because they don't have DI. But the truth is, DI isn't the enemy. Inequity is. And when black and brown bodies are treated as disposable, we don't need less diversity. We need more accountability. In fact, there's been no accountability for conventional and alipathic medicine's role in profiting off of black bodies, in harming black bodies, in propagating black bodies as their test subjects.
In fact, right now, a Georgia woman is being used as a test subject right now, held against her will, her family unable to step in and informed consent out the window. So again, this is why I created Decolonize Your Healthcare, the podcast that looks at this these issues, really decolonizing our health care system and helping black and brown people wake up because our health care system, especially under the hands of RFK Jr., is really not safe. You are not safe in the public health care system. You really haven't been safe since the beginning because in the beginning when public health was created, when our health care system was created, we were not considered human. And in fact, we still are not considered human. We still don't have human rights. We only have civil rights.
So, please be mindful. Please be careful when you're navigating the health care system because just because they look like us doesn't mean they're not complicit to an already racist system..