NIH Gave The University of Miami over $2 Million for ‘Monitoring Microaggressions’

The National Institutes of Health apparently gave the University of Miami a $2.2 million grant to study the impact of “microaggressions” on “black queer women” living with HIV, according to a grant listing.

The project was named Monitoring Microagressions and Adversities to Generate Interventions for Change or MMAGIC. The point of MMAGIC was to further research the relationship of microaggressions, which is defined as “everyday and subtle insults, for example funny comments, jokes, behaviors towards health outcomes. Lucky for us, the over $2 million is being spent tackling issues of the day like conducting in-person interviews to ask black queer woman with HIV about their experiences involving these so-called “microaggressions” and “discrimination” in the space. They would also be asked about how they navigate these experiences, according to the description of the grant.

The grant description says th at “despite their frequency and potential importance, microaggressions have largely been ignored in the scientific literature on black women living with HIV.” Black women with HIV “live at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities and within social structures that take a daily toll,” the description says.

The grant was directed to Sannisha Dale, an associate professor of psychology who chairs the psychology department’s Diversity and Equity Committee, to be used, according to the University of Miami’s website.

“Although COVID and George Floyd’s death weren’t part of the equation when we started this study, they were unfortunate fits into the overall question of how systems of marginalization affect the health of Black women living with HIV,” Dale told the university’s newspaper.

Quite a disturbing way to profit off the deaths of people. According to the University, the MMAGIC program was initially funded by the NIH back in 2019.

Dale went on to say that “Microaggressions can be someone saying, ‘She doesn’t look like she’s positive,’ as if HIV has a face” and furthermore Dale continued “Or ‘I’m HIV negative, I’m clean,’ as if someone else is dirty”.

The Daily Caller reached out to University of Miami and the Department of Health and Human Services for comment, but have not yet heard a response yet.