Pestilence, famine, wars, and earthquakes are remedies for nations, as a means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race. No, it's not Thomas Malthus, 1798. All the media and politicians ever tell us is doom and gloom concerning population, resources, and the environment. Well, I have a different view. The newspapers always point out the bad news.
People say the black infant mortality situation is bad.
Yet, look at the trend, in 1915, for whites there were 100 deaths per 1,000 births and for blacks there 180 deaths per 1,000 births. Compare then to now. For whites, infant mortality is about 9 per 1,000 and black infant mortality about 18 per 1,000. Focusing on the short term comparisons between age groups, the sexes, the races purely relative comparisons misses the overall improvement in human welfare in the long run. We should be looking at the long-term trends.