Filed under: News, The Economy
From The Grio:
Remember all of the anger at town hall meetings across America during the national debate over health care reform, when some people said they wanted to take their country back? A racist even painted a swastika outside the district office of black Congressman David Scott (D-Georgia), who was inundated with racially threatening faxes, emails and phone calls. And Tea Party supporters hurled racial and anti-gay epithets at Congressional lawmakers who gathered outside the Capitol in support of health care.
An interesting study was released suggesting that white opposition to heath care may be racially motivated.
The report, conducted by the Greenlining Institute, a multiethnic public policy, advocacy and leadership institute, set out to determine whether race is a factor in support for the 2010 health care reform law, and whether racial bias is involved in white opposition to the law.
Based on data from the 2008-2010 American National Election Survey, the report found that more Americans supported health care reform (44.3 percent) than opposed it (35.8 percent, with 19.8 percent holding no opinion). But the devil is in the details.
http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,entry&id=990507&pid=990506&uts=1299707060
http://cdn.channel.aol.com/cs_feed_v1_6/csfeedwrapper.swf
Insured Celeb Body Parts
Guess the Celeb & Insurance Amount:
This famous woman recently went from being "emancipated" to married.
James Devaney, WireImage
The Record
BlackVoices.com
Insured Celeb Body Parts
Guess the Celeb & Insurance Amount:
This famous woman recently went from being "emancipated" to married.
Insured Celeb Body Parts
Mariah Carey, $1 Billion Legs:
In 2006, Mariah Carey's legs were insured for this astronomical amount before the start of a tour. Tours can be physically risky, so it definitely pays for a star of this caliber to think ahead.
Insured Celeb Body Parts
Guess the Celeb & Insurance Amount:
This heavenly creature has the "legs of a goddess."
Insured Celeb Body Parts
Rihanna, $1 Million Legs:
In 2007, Rihanna's legs were insured by Gillette when she was given their Celebrity Legs of a Goddess award. Maybe it's time for her to get a more comprehensive policy?
Insured Celeb Body Parts
Guess the Celeb & Insurance Amount:
Known to rock lingerie on the runway, the identity of this angel should be no "secret."
Insured Celeb Body Parts
Heidi Klum, $2.2 Million Legs:
In 2008, supermodel and wife of music superstar Seal had her legs insured for $2.2 million. An odd twist to the story is that one leg is insured for $200,000 less than the other. Why? "They are different values because I have this little scar. I had to be examined in London. A guy came and inspected my leg," says the Victoria's Secret spokeswoman.
Insured Celeb Body Parts
Guess the Celeb & Insurance Amount:
The owner of these legs was the top star of her era, earning $300,000 per film.
Insured Celeb Body Parts
Betty Grable, $1 Million Legs:
One of the first Hollywood stars to famously have a body part insured, Fox Studios had Betty Grable's gams protected in the late 1940s for what would be almost $9 million today. Seems like a fair trade!
Insured Celeb Body Parts
Guess the Celeb & Insurance Amount:
The master of these manly gams has his own line of fragrances.
Insured Celeb Body Parts
David Beckham, $70 Million Legs & Feet:
Soccer superstar and paparazzi favorite David Beckham would not be where he is today without his lower half. But if anything ever happened to his bottom parts, is it really worth a $70 million pay day? And what are the premiums on a policy like that?
Insured Celeb Body Parts
While 78.6 percent of blacks, 52.6 percent of Latinos and 43.6 percent of people of other racial backgrounds supported health care reform, only 38.4 percent of whites supported the legislation. Support among people of color could be a result of racial disparities and inequities in America's health care system. For example, people of color are more likely to be without health insurance. Blacks and Latinos are less likely to have a regular doctor than whites. Native Americans are more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes. And although black women are 10 percent less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than white women, they are 36 percent more likely to die from it.
The Greenlining Institute focused in on racial resentment, which is defined as "a political belief system that fuses whites' belief in traditional conservative values such as the protestant work ethic (e.g., hard work equals success) with whites' negative feelings towards blacks as a group.... Whites who share this perspective tend to believe that the reason blacks fail to get ahead in society is their failure to work hard enough, and not because of racial discrimination."
Interestingly, the study found that whites who were high in racial resentment were against the health care law, not because they hated Obama, which they did, but because of their attitudes towards blacks. They believed African-Americans and other groups were getting something they did not earn or deserve. On the other hand, for whites who were low in racial resentment, their positive feelings about health care were related to their positive attitudes about the president.
Read the rest on The Grio: Is 'racial resentment' behind health reform backlash?
BV Talk Back Questions:
-Do you think racial hatred is behind the resistance to Obama's health care plan?
-If not, what is the real cause of the resentment?
-What, if anything, can the president do to counteract such high resistance to health reform?
Leave your comments below!
Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
