CNN: Daylight Savings Time Is Racist!

No, this isn’t satire…

No, I’m not turning WeLoveTrump into The Babylon Bee.

Nope, sadly this is a hard news report.

CNN has found a new source of racism: DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME!  (read this line in a Tucker Carlson voice for best effect)

Yes, it’s true.

I imagine someone on the CNN staff trying to entertain themselves so they figure what’s the most ludicrous story we could possibly run?

They come up with “Daylight Savings Time is racist”, they pitch it, and CNN runs with it to the staffers shock!

And here we are:

It's a well known fact that daylight savings is racist.

Don't you dare try whitesplain'n me that it isn't! pic.twitter.com/riCE40OEXi

— Dr. Literaleigh A Pheline 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 (@Sarcasmcat24) November 26, 2022

Damn, those racist white people and their…

*Shuffles deck, draws card

… Daylight savings time. pic.twitter.com/S70pA4kDJv

— Toshiro Grendel (@ToshiroGrendel) November 25, 2022

As always, CNN is the “actual” racist here…

Because what’s the message?

White people can cope with telling time just fine but minorities can’t possibly handle it?

Really?

That’s your take, CNN?

Really bad take.

I’ve heard it all, now. Changing our clocks twice a year is “racist.” Do these idiots understand how stupid they sound? https://t.co/HGsqEbowfr

— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) November 26, 2022

Fox News tries to explain:

A recent online article from CNN argued that Daylight Savings Time disproportionately affects the sleep and health of minority communities.

The piece, published on Friday by CNN Health reporter Jacqueline Howard, argued that Daylight Savings Time often disrupts sleep, throws off people’s circadian rhythms and can contribute to general health problems.

And since people of color have a higher number of health problems, this means observing Daylight Savings Time is more dangerous for them.

A recent CNN article claimed that Daylight Savings Time disproportionately harms people of color.

The piece began by citing Vanderbilt University Medical Center Sleep Division professor, Dr. Beth Malow, who claimed, “Daylight saving time is associated with increased risks of sleep loss, circadian misalignment, and adverse health consequences.”

Howard also cited National Institute of Environmental Health Science researcher Chandra Jackson, who stated, “Poor sleep is associated with a host of poor health outcomes, including obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and certain cancers, including of the breast and colon.”

Jackson added the key point, stating, “Many of these health outcomes are more prevalent in the Black population.”

Howard noted, “it’s not that White adults don’t also experience a lack of sleep and its health consequences – but people of color appear to disproportionately experience them more, and that’s believed to be largely due to social systems in the United States.”

Recent research done by the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation’s Dr. César Caraballo-Cordovez found that “among more than 400,000 adults in the US, between 2004 and 2018, the prevalence of short and long sleep duration was persistently higher among those who were Black and Hispanic or Latino.”

Caraballo-Cordovez, mentioned a few of the factors he sees making good sleep and good health harder to achieve for minority groups. He said, “Among those are housing conditions, noise pollution, light pollution, air pollution, stress from different sources – including perceived racial discrimination – and jobs or working conditions.”

Howard claimed that “structural racism” can account for these factors that make sleep harder for people of color. She wrote, “Many social and environmental determinants of health – including living conditions or work schedules that don’t support sleep – may emerge, at least in part, from historical and persistent forms of structural racism.”

She quoted Jackson, who specifically defined structural racism as the “totality of ways in which societies foster racial discrimination through mutually reinforcing systems of housing, education, employment, wages, benefits, credit, media, health care and criminal justice.”

CNN claims Daylight Savings Time (Is Racist) ‘disproportionately’ impacts ‘people of color’https://t.co/QvcFOFpNYw

— Patricia Dickson (@Patrici15767099) November 27, 2022

And from the NY Post:

The piece, published on Friday by CNN Health reporter Jacqueline Howard, argued that Daylight Savings Time often disrupts sleep, throws off people’s circadian rhythms and can contribute to general health problems.

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And since people of color have a higher number of health problems, this means observing Daylight Savings Time is more dangerous for them.

The piece began by citing Vanderbilt University Medical Center Sleep Division professor, Dr. Beth Malow, who claimed, “Daylight saving time is associated with increased risks of sleep loss, circadian misalignment, and adverse health consequences.”

Howard also cited National Institute of Environmental Health Science researcher Chandra Jackson, who stated, “Poor sleep is associated with a host of poor health outcomes, including obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and certain cancers, including of the breast and colon.”

Jackson added the key point, stating, “Many of these health outcomes are more prevalent in the Black population.“

Howard noted, “it’s not that White adults don’t also experience a lack of sleep and its health consequences – but people of color appear to disproportionately experience them more, and that’s believed to be largely due to social systems in the United States.”

Is Daylight Savings Time racist?

Thanks for inviting me on @NEWSMAX @JennPellegrino! pic.twitter.com/xgNAZ1m4ms

— Andrea Catsimatidis (@AJ_Cats_) November 26, 2022