In recent years and especially since the death of George Floyd, high school and college students have been using social media to expose everyday racism they confront at school. A recent story in The New York Times about two high school graduates from Virginia was particularly dramatic.
According to the Times, one student, Jimmy Galligan, shared in June 2020 a three-second Snapchat video of his classmate, Mimi Groves, using a racial slur. Groves had first sent the video message to a friend in 2016 when she was 15 and had just gotten her learner’s permit. In the video, she looks into the camera and says, “I can drive, [racial slur].”
Someone shared it with Galligan a few years later, when both he and Groves were seniors. Galligan kept the video and after Groves had chosen a college, he posted the video publicly. As he later described it to the Times, the video “taught someone a lesson.”
Shortly after Galligan posted the video, Groves’ acceptance to the University of Tennessee’s cheer team was revoked. According to the Times, under pressure from their students, alumni and the public, the university encouraged Groves to withdraw, which she did.
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In recent years and especially since the death of George Floyd, high school and college students have been using social media to expose everyday racism they confront at school. A recent story in The New York Times about two high school graduates from Virginia was particularly dramatic. According to the Times, one student, Jimmy Galligan, shared in June 2020 a three-second Snapchat video of his classmate, Mimi Groves, using a racial slur. Groves had first sent the video message to a friend in 2016 when she was 15 and had just gotten her learner’s permit. In the video, she looks into the camera and says, “I can drive, [racial slur].” Kids pay Kids pay Kids pay
Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza commented on systemic racism over the weekend, saying that despite some progress racism “is everywhere, it’s almost like the air we breathe.”
Garcia was speaking with MSNBC’s Ali Velshi about the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden and what she and other activists expected. In a previous conversation, Garcia told Velshi she wanted to see Biden tackle: an uprooting of racism in every aspect of daily life, the reallocation of resources and the strengthing of oversight measures for law enforcement agencies.
“Let’s talk about that first one, uprooting racism in policing,” Velshi said. “You made a really good point the other day. This is racism. It’s not the same as bad cops.”
“So here’s the thing about uprooting systemic racism, one it’s everywhere. It’s almost like the air we breathe,” Garza replied. “So that is why we have to actually know what we’re looking for in order to not just diagnose the problem but to address it.”
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Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza commented on systemic racism over the weekend, saying that despite some progress racism “is everywhere, it’s almost like the air we breathe.” Garcia was speaking with MSNBC’s Ali Velshi about the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden and what she and other activists expected. In a previous conversation, Garcia told Velshi she wanted to see Biden tackle: an uprooting of racism in every aspect of daily life, the reallocation of resources and the strengthing of oversight measures for law enforcement agencies. “Let’s talk about that first one, uprooting racism in policing,” Velshi said. “You made a really good point the other day. This is racism. It’s not the same as bad cops.” “So here’s the thing about uprooting systemic racism, one it’s everywhere. It’s almost like the air we breathe,” Garza replied. “So that is why we have to actually know what we’re looking for in order to not just diagnose the problem but to address it.”
This article is part of a series in partnership with the All of Us Research Program, which collects and studies health data to help scientists identify health trends. More than 80% of participants are from groups that have been historically underrepresented in research.
After tennis champion Serena Williams gave birth to her daughter in 2017, she almost died. Williams has a history of blood clots in her lungs. So when she had trouble breathing, she told a nurse that she needed a CT scan and blood thinner right away.
The nurse thought her pain medicine was making her confused, but Williams insisted. A CT scan revealed that she had several blood clots in her lungs.
While Williams credits her doctors for saving her life, her story shines a light on the risk of giving birth while Black. African-American women are three to four times more likely to die from pregznancy-related causes than white women, according to the CDC.
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This article is part of a series in partnership with the All of Us Research Program, which collects and studies health data to help scientists identify health trends. More than 80% of participants are from groups that have been historically underrepresented in research. After tennis champion Serena Williams gave birth to her daughter in 2017, she almost died. Williams has a history of blood clots in her lungs. So when she had trouble breathing, she told a nurse that she needed a CT scan and blood thinner right away. The nurse thought her pain medicine was making her confused, but Williams insisted. A CT scan revealed that she had several blood clots in her lungs. While Williams credits her doctors for saving her life, her story shines a light on the risk of giving birth while Black. African-American women are three to four times more likely to die from pregznancy-related causes than white women, according to the CDC. Institutional Racism Institutional Racism Institutional Racism
Racism is a belief system that cannot be completely eradicated. Although many institutions, public health administration, racial justice organizations, and individuals work to take actions against racism, it is still prevalent in the United States. And this year, we, as a country, took a step back from creating a safe and fair environment for the people of color (POCs).
Innumerable incidents this year resulting from the pandemic illustrate that racism is still a serious issue in the United States.
Because the origin of the coronavirus was China, the stereotype developed that Asians and Asian-Americans are the carriers of this virus. This has led to countless incidences of hate crimes, discrimination, and stigmatization against Asian and Asian-American communities across this country.
The initiation of this Anti-Asian racism can be traced back to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1880s. The anti-Chinese racism had created prejudice that China was the “sick man of Asia.” With the Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese laborers were blocked from entering the United States, in part because white people thought they carried virulent diseases. Then in 1900, when the bubonic plague swept San Francisco, the blame was once again put on the Chinese people because this disease was thought to have come from a rat on a Chinese ship. This is exactly what we are seeing today — putting the blame on China. This racism toward China has also caused racism on other ethnicities of Asia, in part because people think they are also Chinese. As a result, in this country we have seen countless hate crimes against people of Asian origin.
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Racism is a belief system that cannot be completely eradicated. Although many institutions, public health administration, racial justice organizations, and individuals work to take actions against racism, it is still prevalent in the United States. And this year, we, as a country, took a step back from creating a safe and fair environment for the people of color (POCs). discrimination against Asians discrimination against Asians discrimination against Asians discrimination against Asians
A Black man from St Kitts and Nevis has provided a detailed account of the racism he has experienced since moving to the UK 50 years ago.
James Brown, who lives in West Yorkshire, also revealed that the discrimination he has experienced has left him fearing for the future of his children.
The 66-year-old moved to the UK as a teenager in 1968, joining his father who was part of the Windrush generation and had immigrated in the wake of World War II. Back then, James experienced racism almost every day.
He was greeted with window signs on shops that read, ‘no colour, no dogs, no Irish’, and he says no one would rent accommodation to a Black person.
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A Black man from St Kitts and Nevis has provided a detailed account of the racism he has experienced since moving to the UK 50 years ago. James Brown, who lives in West Yorkshire, also revealed that the discrimination he has experienced has left him fearing for the future of his children. The 66-year-old moved to the UK as a teenager in 1968, joining his father who was part of the Windrush generation and had immigrated in the wake of World War II. Back then, James experienced racism almost every day. He was greeted with window signs on shops that read, ‘no colour, no dogs, no Irish’, and he says no one would rent accommodation to a Black person. The 66-year-old moved to the UK as a teenager in 1968, joining his father who was part of the Windrush generation and had immigrated in the wake of World War II. Back then, James experienced racism almost every day. He was greeted with window signs on shops that read, ‘no colour, no dogs, no Irish’, and he says no one would rent accommodation to a Black person. fears fears
“He made me feel like a drug addict,” Dr. Susan Moore said, accusing a white doctor of downplaying her complaints of pain and suggesting she should be discharged.
Lying in a hospital bed with an oxygen tube hugging her nostrils, the Black patient gazed into her smartphone and, with a strained voice, complained of an experience all too common among Black people in America.
Susan Moore, the patient, said the white doctor at the hospital in suburban Indianapolis where she was being treated for Covid-19 had downplayed her complaints of pain. He told her that he felt uncomfortable giving her more narcotics, she said, and suggested that she would be discharged.
“I was crushed,” she said in a video posted to Facebook. “He made me feel like I was a drug addict.”
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Lying in a hospital bed with an oxygen tube hugging her nostrils, the Black patient gazed into her smartphone and, with a strained voice, complained of an experience all too common among Black people in America. Susan Moore, the patient, said the white doctor at the hospital in suburban Indianapolis where she was being treated for Covid-19 had downplayed her complaints of pain. He told her that he felt uncomfortable giving her more narcotics, she said, and suggested that she would be discharged. “I was crushed,” she said in a video posted to Facebook. “He made me feel like I was a drug addict.” Lying in a hospital bed with an oxygen tube hugging her nostrils, the Black patient gazed into her smartphone and, with a strained voice, complained of an experience all too common among Black people in America. Susan Moore, the patient, said the white doctor at the hospital in suburban Indianapolis where she was being treated for Covid-19 had downplayed her complaints of pain. He told her that he felt uncomfortable giving her more narcotics, she said, and suggested that she would be discharged. “I was crushed,” she said in a video posted to Facebook. “He made me feel like I was a drug addict.” Black Doctor Black Doctor Black Doctor
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Sunday addressed the general distrust of a COVID-19 vaccine among communities of color ― specifically Black Americans ― and how the government must work to restore trust that’s been eroded by years of medical racism.
CBS’ “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan asked the surgeon general how he planned to persuade skeptical Black Americans to get vaccinated for the virus that’s infected tens of millions of Americans and killed more than 317,000.
“I know that long before COVID, there were many diseases ― hypertension, cancer, diabetes ― that were plaguing communities of color,” Adams said. “And COVID just unveiled those disparities that have been around for a long time.”
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U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Sunday addressed the general distrust of a COVID-19 vaccine among communities of color ― specifically Black Americans ― and how the government must work to restore trust that’s been eroded by years of medical racism. CBS’ “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan asked the surgeon general how he planned to persuade skeptical Black Americans to get vaccinated for the virus that’s infected tens of millions of Americans and killed more than 317,000. “I know that long before COVID, there were many diseases ― hypertension, cancer, diabetes ― that were plaguing communities of color,” Adams said. “And COVID just unveiled those disparities that have been around for a long time.” U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Sunday addressed the general distrust of a COVID-19 vaccine among communities of color ― specifically Black Americans ― and how the government must work to restore trust that’s been eroded by years of medical racism. CBS’ “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan asked the surgeon general how he planned to persuade skeptical Black Americans to get vaccinated for the virus that’s infected tens of millions of Americans and killed more than 317,000. “I know that long before COVID, there were many diseases ― hypertension, cancer, diabetes ― that were plaguing communities of color,” Adams said. “And COVID just unveiled those disparities that have been around for a long time.”
Two recent studies reveal the physical toll that systemic racism has on African Americans. New research from The Family and Community Health Study as well as the American Psychological Association link race-related stress to accelerated aging among Black people. One place where racism is most often encountered is the workplace, and two Houston-based filmmakers have produced an award-winning documentary illustrating the mental and physical toll systemic racism has on Black people in the workplace.
TO BE US Productions—a Black-owned multimedia company– examined the mental, emotional, and physical effects of racism in the workplace in their debut documentary TO BE US: To Work. Founders Tosca Davis and Cedrick Smith interviewed dozens of African American workers about micro/macro aggressions faced in the job; their stories echo the findings in these recent studies.
“Much of the stress Black folks experience is from not naming their trauma as ‘trauma’. They’re also suppressing their struggles because there is no safe space,” says Tosca Davis, co-CEO of TO BE US Productions. “How are you supposed to begin healing if there’s nowhere to go or you’re afraid of retaliation? It takes its toll on the mind and the body.”
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Two recent studies reveal the physical toll that systemic racism has on African Americans. New research from The Family and Community Health Study as well as the American Psychological Association link race-related stress to accelerated aging among Black people. One place where racism is most often encountered is the workplace, and two Houston-based filmmakers have produced an award-winning documentary illustrating the mental and physical toll systemic racism has on Black people in the workplace. TO BE US Productions—a Black-owned multimedia company– examined the mental, emotional, and physical effects of racism in the workplace in their debut documentary TO BE US: To Work. Founders Tosca Davis and Cedrick Smith interviewed dozens of African American workers about micro/macro aggressions faced in the job; their stories echo the findings in these recent studies.
Ann Arbor, December 15, 2020 – Structural racism can lead to discrimination in many aspects of life including criminal justice, employment, housing, health care, political power, and education. A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine examines the impact of structural racism on health and confirms that chronic exposure to stressors leads to a marked erosion of health that is particularly severe among foreign-born Blacks and Latinx. Investigators say largescale structural policies that address structural racism are needed.
Structural racism is defined as laws, rules, or official policies in a society that result in a continued unfair advantage to some people and unfair or harmful treatment of others based on race. “There is evidence that structural racism has a material impact on the health of racial/ethnic minorities and immigrants,” explained lead investigator Brent A. Langellier, PhD, Department of Health Management and Policy, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. “Comparing allostatic load–a multidimensional measure of the body’s response to stressors experienced throughout the life course–between immigrants and non-immigrants of different racial/ethnic backgrounds can help shed light on the magnitude of health differences between groups.”
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Ann Arbor, December 15, 2020 – Structural racism can lead to discrimination in many aspects of life including criminal justice, employment, housing, health care, political power, and education. A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine examines the impact of structural racism on health and confirms that chronic exposure to stressors leads to a marked erosion of health that is particularly severe among foreign-born Blacks and Latinx. Investigators say largescale structural policies that address structural racism are needed. Structural racism is defined as laws, rules, or official policies in a society that result in a continued unfair advantage to some people and unfair or harmful treatment of others based on race.
Racism literally ages Black Americans faster, according to our 25-year study
Racism literally ages Black Americans faster, according to our 25-year study
I’m part of a research team that has been following more than 800 Black American families for almost 25 years. We found that people who had reported experiencing high levels of racial discrimination when they were young teenagers had significantly higher levels of depression in their 20s than those who hadn’t. This elevated depression, in turn, showed up in their blood samples, which revealed accelerated ageing on a cellular level.
Our research is not the first to show Black Americans live sicker lives and die younger than other racial or ethnic groups. The experience of constant and accumulating stress due to racism throughout an individual’s lifetime can wear and tear down the body – literally “getting under the skin” to affect health.
These findings highlight how stress from racism, particularly experienced early in life, can affect the mental and physical health disparities seen among Black Americans.
Read more at: The Guardian
I’m part of a research team that has been following more than 800 Black American families for almost 25 years. We found that people who had reported experiencing high levels of racial discrimination when they were young teenagers had significantly higher levels of depression in their 20s than those who hadn’t. This elevated depression, in turn, showed up in their blood samples, which revealed accelerated ageing on a cellular level. Our research is not the first to show Black Americans live sicker lives and die younger than other racial or ethnic groups. The experience of constant and accumulating stress due to racism throughout an individual’s lifetime can wear and tear down the body – literally “getting under the skin” to affect health. These findings highlight how stress from racism, particularly experienced early in life, can affect the mental and physical health disparities seen among Black Americans.
