Louisiana Senator: Our Maternal Death Rates Are Only Bad If You Count Black Women
(www.vanityfair.com)
There's some truth to his statement as far as the numbers go and perhaps some correction is needed. Obviously, you wouldn't want to entirely remove the stats of African American women, as that would be blatantly racist, but it seems some for of compromise is warranted.
Perhaps counting only half of them? or perhaps slightly more than half, say 6/10ths