Commentary: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s flashy statistic about Black infant mortality demands scrutiny
by Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune
Jul 11, 2023
3 minutes
Last month, when the U.S. Supreme Court decided the case on affirmative action in college admissions, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a stinging dissent that included a litany of harms and injustices that Black citizens have had to endure from the age of slavery until the present.
I have no quarrel with anything in her dissent, save one accusation that she cited: “For high risk Black newborns, having a Black physician more than doubles the likelihood that the baby will live, and not die.”
The basis for Jackson’s statistic
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