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A Southern panel of lawyers cites the higher mortality statistics for Black people as a "benefit."

Date: 1911

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The panel reflects that tuberculosis and pulmonary diseases will eventually reduce and completely eradicate the Black community. The lawyers also call for ‘‘the increased use of cocaine among the Negroes [to] greatly hasten this result.’’ Using words like "extinction," they express their disappointments over any health measure that takes social conditions into consideration or supports the Black community.