Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recited as a “fact” that Black pediatricians, as compared to white pediatricians, double the survival rate of black babies. She implied that Black babies die more often when under the care of white pediatricians because the white ones are racist.
Therefore, her reasoning goes, we should favor Blacks in college admissions – so that we can double the Black baby survival rate.
That would be a neat trick – to double the survival rate of Black babies – and a pretty good reason to continue racially discriminating in favor of Blacks, if only her “fact” were true.
But it’s not.
The current Black baby survival rate is over 99%, within a hair of the white baby survival rate. So, a doubling of the Black baby survival rate would put it at over 198%. In other words, for every one Black baby born, nearly two would survive.
I suppose this spontaneous generation of an additional Black baby spawned by the excellent care of a quota-baby Black medical school applicant would give us a good reason, finally, to refer to the baby with the plural pronoun “they.”
But, alas, it’s not possible. One baby equals, at most, one baby. No matter how hard we thumb the scale in college admissions, and no matter how excellent the care from a Black pediatrician, that Black baby will still be only one Black baby.
Therefore, her reasoning goes, we should favor Blacks in college admissions – so that we can double the Black baby survival rate.
That would be a neat trick – to double the survival rate of Black babies – and a pretty good reason to continue racially discriminating in favor of Blacks, if only her “fact” were true.
But it’s not.
The current Black baby survival rate is over 99%, within a hair of the white baby survival rate. So, a doubling of the Black baby survival rate would put it at over 198%. In other words, for every one Black baby born, nearly two would survive.
I suppose this spontaneous generation of an additional Black baby spawned by the excellent care of a quota-baby Black medical school applicant would give us a good reason, finally, to refer to the baby with the plural pronoun “they.”
But, alas, it’s not possible. One baby equals, at most, one baby. No matter how hard we thumb the scale in college admissions, and no matter how excellent the care from a Black pediatrician, that Black baby will still be only one Black baby.
Justice Jackson wants to increase the Black baby survival rate to 198% but what about the Black abortion rate?
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