Hodgetwins debate whether COVID-19 disparities stem from systemic racism or lifestyle factors, citing data showing Black Americans faced 1.5x infection rates and four times higher hospitalization than white people. While one speaker references a Harvard study linking reparations to reduced transmission, the other counters with comorbidities like diabetes and obesity, dismissing systemic claims as low IQ arguments fueled by financial struggles and poor health choices rather than race. Ultimately, the episode challenges listeners to judge if these outcomes reflect biological realities or societal failures. [Automatically generated summary]
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COVID Impact on Black Communities00:04:09
Stands on the basis of facts.
There is no doubt that we have been impacted that DNA and the trends, the trajectory of slavery to today.
For example, at COVID, black African Americans got COVID at a rate nearly one and a half times higher than that of white people, or hospitalized at a rate nearly four times higher and three times likely to die.
COVID hit us very desperately.
Interestingly, a recent peer-reviewed study from Harvard Medical School, Harvard Medical School, suggests that reparations for African Americans could have cut COVID-19 transmission and infection rates, both among blacks and the population at large.
Reparations are curatives.
They're not punishment.
Slavery ain't got nothing to do with the pandemic.
What has reparations got to do with thwarting the spread of COVID?
So a bunch of black people driving Cadillacs that keeps them from getting COVID?
What?
What do you mean what?
Oh, I get it.
They got reparations.
They could go buy Cadillac?
Of course, that's the first thing they're going to do.
No, the first thing they're going to do is go buy a gold chain.
Yeah, what do you mean they might buy a mechanic?
What does gold chains, a house, and a Cadillac got to do with stopping COVID?
It's a bunch of rich white people got COVID.
Hey, are you trying to say COVID's racist?
That COVID don't like black people?
Is that why they'll get infected?
That's why there's more, you know.
I mean, everything you said don't make any sense.
I mean, I don't deny those facts, those statistics that you were saying were true, but you're not a statistician.
You're not even reading the data accurately.
Like, you can take two statisticians.
You can take a well-experienced statistician.
You can take an idiot like you, right?
You give those same stats, they will come with two different, separate conclusions.
Yeah.
The facts, you're not even interpreting the data accurately.
Being black has catching COVID and being black or being poor has nothing to do with how COVID's going to affect you.
It's all about your lifestyle, how healthy you are.
Let's assume.
Let's assume all your stats are correct.
Let's just assume.
Okay.
What do we know about COVID?
It hates black people.
Who does it impact more?
Who does, let's get serious on this.
She just read fat.
COVID is racist.
No, this.
COVID is a white supremacist.
Yeah.
Who does COVID impact more?
Older people, elderly, sick people, fat people?
People just got something wrong with them physically.
What they call it?
Comorbidities?
Yeah, they got something wrong with them.
That's who COVID impacts the most.
So if your facts is true, those stats that you're stating, if they are true, that's why it has nothing to do with them being black.
They got diabetes.
They're overweight.
They got all kinds of other medical issues.
Put that fried chicken leg down, go get you a grilled chicken sandwich.
So instead of saying what you said, why don't you come out to the black community?
Look, y'all some unhealthy people.
We died a much higher rate when COVID came around because we live a our culture sucks.
Yeah, it's a more of a I mean, those stats would imply that black people live an unhealthy life, most blacks.
Yeah, that's what it suggests.
Not that COVID can actually detect racism.
I mean, do you know what?
I definitely think you got some low IQ going.
Yeah, you're definitely dumb.
I don't think it's ignorance.
Ignorance you can fix.
Stupidity.
I mean, stupid.
I mean, low IQ, you can't fix that.
You actually read those statistics and came up with that.
I don't know if it's, maybe it's not low IQ.
Maybe you're just letting your personal biases dictate how you think.
That could be it, too.
How the hell does slavery has anything to do with a pandemic?
What do you think black people are going to do when they get a reparation?
What do you think they're going to do?
They're going to blow that money.
You know they're going to blow it.
And that, not only black people blow money, anybody that comes into a lost sum of money and ain't got no money within six months.
Yeah, and they ain't got no money.
Yeah, they're gonna be broke.
Just like when people win the lottery, broke.
Blowing Reparation Money00:00:44
Yeah.
They don't know what happened.
MC Hammer, broke.
Well, I think he got his money back.
I think he learned from, he learned from, whatever.
He went to the church, I think.
He found Jesus.
And now he's getting his money through collection plates.
What's your name?
Sheila Jackson Lee.
Man, boy, I would love to see your typical voter.
I bet you'll just put a smile to my face, boy.
Yeah, because you were pretty dumb.
You're the same person.
What did she say about... I ain't going to get into it.
She's talking about sexuality.
She took a damn.
I remember we did her video.
She had that 50 caliber Well it's not a good idea.