I didn't start the fire

This is an unwarranted and rather ugly personal attack. I have neither shame nor internal conflict on this topic. My ancestors were not slave owners.

I was born and raised in the South, but my father and mother were both from elsewhere.

I own a Reddit called Georgia on my mind. I started it because I was seeing a lot of ugly stuff in the news about my home state and wanted to do something positive.

It never got any kind of traction and I eventually became rather upset with what I was hearing about Georgia and I repositioned it to be about the country instead of the US state.

I was upset about political stuff. I was upset that anyone there would vote for MTG, much less enough people to elect her.

I was upset about things I was hearing about healthcare and reproductive rights, especially for women.

Many years ago, having nothing to do with Georgia per se, I read a piece that talked about a physician who routinely delivered Black infants with forceps because it was an aggravation to wait for them to be born. He had better things to do.

My brother was delivered by forceps and he molested me when I was a child. I think those two things are related. I don't think he's a pedophile per se -- someone attracted to children -- because he's not really that much older than me, but trying to understand what happened led me to believe that pedophilia is probably a head injury syndrome.

So I am deeply disturbed when I read things that suggest to me that you may be at greater risk of having a head injury syndrome inflicted at birth merely due to the color of your skin and racism in the US because some White asshole doesn't feel like he needs to bother to WAIT for a Black baby to be born like he would for a White baby.

I know a lot about alternative medicine and home remedies and I wish I could do something for ordinary people in Georgia but I don't see any means whatsoever to do so. 

Medical topics are incredibly challenging to write about and potentially dangerous to address in the current climate and I have half-baked ideas and partial information for a lot of things and no means to verify anything or test it or develop solid information.

My mother delivered babies in her teens. She wanted to be a physician and one woman returned to her for a second delivery in preferance to seeing a doctor. My mother had her first baby in bed at home with a midwife.

I believe we generally medicalize things too much these days and I wonder if Black Americans would be better off with doulas and midwives and only going to a hospital if the birth ends up involving an actual medical emergency of some sort.

I knew a gal via some gifted list who told me she took cod liver oil to induce labor. She researched it and she had had enough of being pregnant and it worked.

Is that potentially useful information? Or is it dangerous information to share publicly?

I don't have dosing information and if it can induce labor it's potentially a means to induce abortion. But is it safe? 

I read two or three books about slavery in some Caribbean islands where slavery was so harsh average life expectancy of a slave after being imported from Africa was just three years. They outlawed the importation of slaves before they outlawed slavery and the slave population began to shrink because it wasn't maintaining a birth rate adequate to achieve replacement levels.

They concluded that slaves had to be using herbal contraceptives learned in Africa.

I don't believe in martyring oneself for some cause. I'm not interested in being a target of either angry Blacks nor White Supremacists.

I mostly try to keep my pie hole shut about this bullshit to try to not get dragged into it and go down with it while wondering how long America can let this shit burn while people like me try to avoid "putting out the fire with gasoline" before everything burns to the ground anyway.