We’ve tried and failed in every other possible way to get rid of daylight savings time.
Finally, CNN has come up with a tried-and-true method… call it racist.
The piece, published on Friday by CNN Health reporter Jacqueline Howard, argued that Daylight Savings Time often disrupts sleep, throws off people’s circadian rhythms and can contribute to general health problems. And since people of color have a higher number of health problems, this means observing Daylight Savings Time is more dangerous for them.
Everything disproportionately affects black people. That’s become a standard method for accusing everything from highways to the weather of being racist.
But it also has legal implications. A finding that daylight savings time disproportionately affects black people means that it’s racist and companies and organizations maintaining it either have to get rid of it or provide a separate time frame for black people.
Howard also cited National Institute of Environmental Health Science researcher Chandra Jackson, who stated, “Poor sleep is associated with a host of poor health outcomes, including obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and certain cancers, including of the breast and colon.”
Jackson added the key point, stating, “Many of these health outcomes are more prevalent in the black population.“
Howard noted, “it’s not that white adults don’t also experience a lack of sleep and its health consequences – but people of color appear to disproportionately experience them more, and that’s believed to be largely due to social systems in the United States.”
I can’t wait for the revisionist history claiming that daylight savings time was created to promote racial segregation. Or the Daylight Savings Time Project which claims that it was invented by white supremacists to catch escaping slaves.
The movie starring Will Smith and Chris Rock will be awesome.
Poorer people often buy land in polluted areas because it’s cheaper. That’s mainly why they are disproportionately affected.
So, the lefty shtick always goes something like this: IF YOU DISAGREE WITH ME ABOUT ANYTHING, YOU ARE RACIST, RACIST, RACIST!
Perhaps you mean “Rayciss, Rayciss, Rayciss!”
The Sun itself is racist.
If the Sun cared about black people it would shine 24/7 on the black community to reduce black on black crime, the number one health problem in the black community.
“The [Sun] doesn’t care about black people” – Kanye West
Actually, blacks commit far more crimes in Summer than Winter because it’s too cold to stay outside for long periods of time in the Winter.
Excellent point. My brain was so fried from the earlier comments that I forgot about that.
Sixty-two countries observe daylight savings time, but only the US is racists?
How else can one describe any country that waited until they existed to fight a civil war to abolish black slavery instead of doing it retroactively, say in 1775?
They have no defense. Obviously the damned white devils have suppressed time travel to keep the black man down.
Next they’ll claim Lincoln wasn’t a Democrat and try to blame the dems for Jim Crow. The right uses deceit like eggs benedict uses hollandaise sauce.
Trust me.
There was a plaque dems put on a building a few years back that misidentified Lincoln as a democrat.
The National Association for the Advancement of Disabled Colored People [ the NAADCP ] would like to denounce all those vocalists who are neither Ray Charles nor Stevie Wonder.
The NAADCP! Fighting the evil of ableism until the coffers are barren!
What utter rubbish. You would think that, at some point, these racial hucksters would either get tired of it or realize what unbalanced imbeciles they are. But no.
I’ll go along with just about anything to get rid of daylight savings time. Maybe we can start an urban legend that daylight savings was invented so slave owners could work slaves an extra hour.
The government will probably keep daylight savings time and create “black time.” Blacks would be able to show up to work an hour late and leave an hour early.
Of course it’s racist. Daylight Savings Time never had any effect on me except (gasp!) .having to adjust clocks but then again, I’m a white male., so what do I know. The Sun is racist, so it makes (no) sense any time change is racist. By the way, given the racist aspect of time changes, travelling from coast to coast by jet is also racist. But wait a minute, traveling by car is also racist because you still have to change your clocks when you change time zones. I get it know, time changes and travel are racist too! Where’s Al Sharpton on this?
Given Will Smith’s personal situation, one could, using this as_-backward logic, say that daylight savings time causes hair loss in in black folk. Simultaneity=causality is a kind of magical thinking.