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Thursday, June 11h 8:00PM Eastern/ 5:00PM Pacific The Context of White Supremacy is tremendously thankful to reach the 10th and final study session on Dr. Llaila O. Afrika's Nutritional Destruction Black People (Nutricide). #WorstBookEver Dr. Afrika is an internationally acclaimed author, naturopathic healer, certified acupuncturist, nutrition counselor and addictionologist. His surprising death in March of this year saddened and stunned many. He was 74. We were scheduled to read Dr. Afrika's work at some point this year, but there was no urgency to select a time. The coronavirus changed everything. Seemingly days after many around the world joked that black people are immune to "the rona," an avalanche of reports announced that black people in the U.S. are dying at alarming numbers from the so-called coronavirus. The history and continued practice of #MedicalAprtheid, abusing and experimenting on black patients, is one theory to explain the high number of fatalities. But obesity, cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes and a host of other diet-related health problems seem to be correlated with a higher risk of dying from the coronavirus. The current health crisis demanded that we open Dr. Afrika's work immediately. Unfortunately, the book is rife with errors, misprints, name-calling, dubious claims unsupported by evidence, and is generally unworthy of being read. Listeners who met Dr. Afrika personally have unflinchingly supported he and his work - ignoring or minimizing the countless typos, poor logic and antiblackness throughout the text. Last week's section was particularly unhelpful, as much of chapter 6 is a motley collection of charts, sentence fragments, and lists. Dr. Afrika jumps from sharing his views on Ritalin, to noise in the "ghetto," to hair relaxers, to black teen suicide. There's no analysis explaining how these different topics are related or why they're all randomly clumped in one chapter. These topics often have entire books devoted