Race Norming...

 

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© June 7, 2021, the Griot Poet

 

James Marion Sims

 

He had a statue in Central Park,

A double-lark,

As the “park” was once a settlement,

Called Seneca Village,

Founded in 1825,

By African American landowners,

In the 1840s,

The cities elite planned Central Park

In midtown Manhattan,

Not giving a tinkers damn about its inhabitants,

City planning underpaid landowners,

One got only $700 when he should have received $3,500,

Buildings condemned, and then blocks razed,

The model later for the Tulsa massacre,

 

A statue dedicated to,

James Marion Sims

In 1845,

On stolen property,

An idol to a psychopath

That performed surgery,

 

On black women,

His first victim’s name was Lucy,

An enslaved African from Alabama,

On her hands and knees

For more than an hour,

As Sims attempted repair

On a hole between her bladder and vagina,

Without anesthesia

Lucy developed blood poisoning

Sims fashioned a catheter from a piece of sponge,

His log referred to the procedure as “dumb,”

Lucy miraculously survived.

 

Setting the precedent

In the medical profession,

There was something different,

About the pain threshold

Of black women,

And by extension,

The entire culture,

 

She, and about six other enslaved women,

Endured four years of experimental surgeries,

Until he perfected a procedure to address

Vesico-vaginal fistula

The hole between bladder and vagina,

Uncontrollable urine leakage,

Possible after childbirth,

It just took the inhumane,

Un-Hippocratic,

Savage experiments on fellow humans he treated like lab rats,

 

James Marion Sims

Is the father of gynecology,

Gynecology: “the branch of physiology and medicine dealing with the functions and diseases specific to women and girls, especially those affecting the reproductive system.”

Because of this current emerging enlightenment,

His statue removed,

But the damage is done

To the medical profession,

As the prejudice passed down generations,

To the NFL’s practice of “race-norming,”

In 2021, affecting about 20,000 current and former players,

It’s been in the medical profession,

To reduce to equations what treatments we get for illness,

Changing how treatments administered when we’re in duress,

Changing medical outcomes that aren’t for our interests the best,

Increasing infant and mother mortality,

Masking it in the magical “morality” that Melanin preponderance

Makes us:

Pain-enduring,

Unintelligent,

Beast of burden,

But for the NFL, a means of saying,

Black athletes weren’t as intelligent,

So claims of injuries from getting repeatedly hit by Mack trucks on the field,

Early-stage dementia and Parkinson’s “just a myth,”

To deny billions of dollars needed for traumatic brain injury treatment,

It only makes illogical sense,

To bean-counter accountants,

Saving money for Jerry Jones and his ilk,

To hide it in tax dodges like boondoggle stadiums built at taxpayer expense,

While the money he could be paying in the US,

For universal healthcare,

Education,

Paid maternity and paternity leave,

Pothole repairs,

Like the rest of the civilized planet,

He hides his stolen loot in the Cayman Islands,

In offshore accounts,

Always threatening exodus,

If they don’t get what they want.

[Race] is a social construct,

Made up whole cloth by powerful interests,

To justify the continued enslavement of Lucy, her kindred, and descendants,

The human race of ONE BLOOD exists on this planet,

Shades of Melanin and carotin are irrelevant,

What Jerry and the dwarfs want is for the grift to go on forever, unchallenged.