N.J. Rep. Calls Sen. Cassidy’s Black Maternal Mortality Comment ‘Rooted in White Supremacy’: He ‘Seems Content to Let Black Mothers Die’

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.) went off on Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA)’s comment that Louisiana’s maternal mortality rate wouldn’t be as much of an outlier “if you correct our population for race.” Coleman called the statement “rooted in white supremacy,” and wrote that his suggestion of correcting the data “means eliminating Black maternal health outcomes entirely.” According […]