Why She Got Fired

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Last week, the Washington Post fired 300 of its 800 journalists.

Its publisher explained the problem to the staff two years ago: “We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff.”

But some people won’t change, so they got the boot. The next day, spoiled ex-employees gathered outside the Post building, sounding exactly as you would expect. I didn’t see her face in that crowd, but one of the ex-employees was Akilah Johnson. As she explained on X, she was hired in 2021 to “explore the way racism & social inequality affects health,” adding, “Today I was laid off.”

Poor Akilah. Just the week before, I had rolled my eyes over what turned out to be her last article: “New evidence shows how discrimination shortens lives in Black communities.”

We learn that “a biological marker bolsters the ‘weathering hypothesis’ that links systemic racism to health disparities.”

A biological marker! Wow. “Systemic racism” — that’s the kind no one can see or define — changes the biology of blacks, and they weather, just like a piece of wood left out in the cruel elements.

It’s been known for at least a decade that two proteins in the blood, Interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein, are associated with stress and inflammation and can build up in the body over time. High levels are associated with bad health and earlier death.

And here’s the study Akilah was writing about — in the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion category, no less.

It tracked those two blood markers in 505 black and 1,049 white 58-year-olds to see how long they lived.

As you can see, at the upper left, at age 55, everyone was alive. At the lower right, half the blacks were dead by age 78, but it took another three years for half the whites to be dead. Why’d the blacks die sooner? Well, you see, they had filled out a form that said they had been victims of racial discrimination. They also had higher levels of stress markers. Systemic racism had weathered them and ground them down, right into the grave.

Now, if you’re comparing blacks to whites, wouldn’t you want to compare similar populations? Control for income, health habits, education, chronic diseases, marital status, etc? Nope. In fact, as this table shows, 22 percent of blacks had incomes of less than $20,000, which was three times more likely than the 7.5 percent of poor whites.

As for incomes of $140,000 or more, at 17.3 percent, whites were 14 times more likely than blacks to have incomes that high. Education was the same: vast differences between whites and blacks.

The reasoning in this so-called study is that those differences — and anything else you can think of — are due to racism, because blacks suffer from “elevated exposure to chronic stress resulting from systemic and explicit discrimination across generations.”

Those stress markers have been building up since the Middle Passage.

But Akilah worried in her Post article that the study missed a lot of black agony because it asked only about “major traumas” and “overt discrimination.” It didn’t consider microaggressions, routine slights, code-switching, and the constant effort to adjust speech or behavior to fit into predominantly White workplaces.

Even the Post’s readers weren’t buying it.

How about “other factors”? “Assuming it’s due to racism is a leap.” “The problems the Black community deals with are of their own making for the most part.” “Ridiculously broad claims by ideological academics . . . without any critical analysis whatsoever.” Other commenters pointed out that if black people are dying of stress, it’s probably from living around each other.

Neither the commenters nor poor Akilah seem to know or care that, as you can see in the two bottom columns, both Asians and Hispanics live longer than whites.

If racism and white people are the problem, how do those two oppressed groups manage to outlive their oppressors? Hispanics, especially. They are twice as likely as whites to be poor and three times more likely not to have medical insurance. Could there — heaven forbid — be genetic differences between the races? I suspect Akilah would slit her wrists before she even hinted at that.

And I couldn’t find anything she ever wrote about Indians and Eskimos dying, on average, four years earlier than blacks. No, it’s all blackety-black-black for Akilah. But what else did she write?

Here’s something from 2024 called “Racism was called a health threat. Then came the DEI backlash.” Akilah had been so pleased that after George Floyd went to glory, CDC director Rochelle Walensky officially declared that racism is a threat to public health.

Credit Image: © Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Press Wire

The grant money began to roll down like mighty waters, but then racists attacked DEI, and the waters became less mighty. “The stakes are especially stark with health care,” Akilah wrote, “because centuries of inequities yield life-or-death consequences.”

Akilah did some courageous reporting: “This anti-DEI movement creates a climate of fear,” said Chandra L. Ford, founding director of the Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice & Health.

You’ll be relieved to know that Chandra survived the climate of fear, and on her very own webpage, you’ll learn: “A dynamic and in-demand speaker, teacher and author, Ford’s contributions to public scholarship are profound.”

But back to the study that proved white racism shortens black lives. Here are the funding sources. All are federal agencies.

You pay for this stuff. All these grants were initiated under previous management, and let’s hope new management cleans house.

Credit Image: © Andrew Leyden/ZUMA Press Wire/ZUMA Wire

Which could be bad news for lead author Isiah Spears, who is a doctoral student at Washington University in St. Louis.

Let’s hope he’s got more tricks up his sleeve than hunting for imaginary racism.

This whole sorry story is one of contemptible white capitulation. White people pay taxes for grants to study how white people are mysteriously killing off black people. White people hire the blacks to do this so-called research. White people hired the black so-called journalist to write a puff piece about the so-called research.

Who quoted Chandra Ford, whose “contributions to scholarship are profound.” Chandra is also with the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity, which is all about “eliminating disparities in incidence, prevalence, mortality and burden of disease experienced by disadvantaged and underserved populations.”

Kaiser health plan members pay for this.

We can’t just cure disease. Instead, we’ve got to fret about blacks and worry about how awful we are — even though Hispanics or Asians live longer than we do. Donald Trump was supposed to end this farce. One year in, he’s made a start. But this is what it’s been like for decades, and if the other side takes over, it’ll be a lot worse.

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