Arisika Razak
Feb 25, 2017 · 1 min read

You are not responding to my point in regards to the effects of racism on Black health. Lots of money is being spent on health care research re genetics, and/or the development of race specific pharmaceuticals. However the scientific community still refuses to integrate social science research re implicit bias and its effects on the access of African Americans to equitable health care. In addition, your initial article points to the fact that African American genetic inheritance is highly intermixed with that of Euro-Americans. In certain areas, or for certain peoples, I believe there is a high mixture of Native American genetic inheritance. How can we reliably market drugs targeted to people of one race when the true fact is that we are a mixture several genetic strains?

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