Fraught with violence, the human race resorts to it as if it was endemic and the most natural of any recourse.
Looking at a map of the world, it is difficult to find a region unscarred by a dislike, often bordering on hatred, of the other. If Ukraine is the latest phobic eruption holding the world’s attention, it is not the only one.
In Nigeria, it is north versus south, east versus west and now fundamentalists against the status quo. The latest news has a train being attacked by Boko Haram and senseless killings.
In Sri Lanka, once a peaceful island, it has been Tamils versus the native Sindhalese since the 1980s until the former were mercilessly defeated. Human Race
It has led to scars and the mistreatment of Tamils. Such divisiveness without healing has its own problems, and at present Sri Lanka is suffering a severe food and fuel shortage, no doubt also due to more immediate reasons.
In India, differences are regional and geographical: West versus East, North versus South, indigenous versus mainstream, and, thanks to the ruling BJP, Hindus versus the Muslim, Christian and Sikh minorities.
Is Western Europe immune? Unfortunately not. The advertised liberal tolerance for minorities and immigrants is skin deep. To recall a conference in West Berlin … the young girl offering information on what to do and visit in our spare time told us to avoid a particular area.
On further inquiry her face assumed an innocent expression of distaste as she quietly whispered, ‘the Turks, you know’. I had heard exactly the same words from a friend in the Netherlands who meant well when warning about areas of Eindhoven some two decades earlier.
The U.S. is a sad case. Slavery was followed by black segregation. Denied decent schools by the system of local property tax funding of education, African-Americans were relegated to the lower social strata often serving as domestic help.
Last month marks one year since the killing of George Floyd, and over that often-tumultuous timespan of public outrage, nationwide street demonstrations, and protest, Americans have been forced to take a critical and introspective look at ourselves as a nation of a diverse citizenry.
In the last year, we have confronted how racism in the day-to-day practices of our police and overall criminal justice system impacts the Black community. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically highlighted the ignominious and thus disconcerting reality that longstanding racial inequities in our institution of medicine are as commonplace and intact as they were before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. And as we approach Juneteenth, the annual holiday to commemorate the end of slavery, I’ve been forced to reconcile that Blacks in America cannot truly achieve freedom and liberation if medical racism still exists. For those of us who have experienced it firsthand, racism in medicine is as violent, dehumanizing, and socially destructive as wanton police brutality against African-Americans and other peoples of color in this country.
Like the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021, the institution of medicine requires a civil rights and physician reform act to combat physician misconduct as it pertains to racial bias and structural racism in medicine. History has repeatedly shown that laws backed up with enforcement and sanctions for violations can change behavior, such as school integration laws. Medical racism is an age-old practice that sorts and ranks people into hierarchal racial groups that predictably results in the allocation of quality care and resources and other favorable social rewards disproportionally to white patients to the maleficent neglect of its citizens of color.
From a public policy perspective, the Medical Practice Acts are state laws set in place to regulate the practice of medicine to ensure that patients are not injured or harmed and instead protected. These laws vary from state to state, and the behaviors typically deemed professional misconduct for physicians range from inadequate record-keeping to physical abuse of a patient.
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Biden calls Trump ‘one of the most racist presidents we’ve had in modern history.’
Biden calls Trump ‘one of the most racist presidents we’ve had in modern history.’
President Trump came to the debate ready with his regular wrap on race when asked to explain his description of “Black Lives Matter” as a symbol of hate: He claimed he had done more than any president since Abraham Lincoln for African-Americans, and he called himself the “least racist person in this room.” (Never mind that the moderator of the debate, Kristen Welker, is a Black woman.)
But he has limited achievements to back up the ludicrous claims he regularly makes as part of his stump speech. He typically points to criminal justice reform and his support for historically Black colleges and universities as the twin backbones of his support for Black Americans. On Thursday night, he also talked about creating opportunity zones.
It’s all been part of an effort to shave off a few points of Mr. Biden’s support among Black voters. Mr. Trump won just 8 percent of Black voters in 2016 and his campaign wants to increase his margin by a few points.
But he has limited achievements to back up the ludicrous claims he regularly makes as part of his stump speech. He typically points to criminal justice reform and his support for historically Black colleges and universities as the twin backbones of his support for Black Americans. On Thursday night, he also talked about creating opportunity zones. It’s all been part of an effort to shave off a few points of Mr. Biden’s support among Black voters. Mr. Trump won just 8 percent of Black voters in 2016 and his campaign wants to increase his margin by a few points. a few points
Exposure to Racism May Lead to Premature Aging Among African Americans
A new study led by David H. Chae, an associate professor of human sciences and the director of the Society, Health, and Racial Equity Lab at Auburn University in Alabama, finds that racism may result in premature biological aging among African Americans. The researchers found African Americans who reported being subjected to more racial discrimination over a 10-year period showed signs of faster aging at the cellular level during the same time frame.
A common underlying risk factor across many diseases of aging is the length of telomeres — the repetitive sequences of DNA at the ends of chromosomes that protect the cell. Short telomeres increase people’s risks of developing diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and dementia. Because telomeres get progressively shorter as people get older, they are considered to be an indicator of cell aging.
Researchers looked at data from a large group of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Oakland, California. Baseline data was collected in 2000 when participants were on average 40 years old and follow-up data was examined in 2010. Participants were asked about their experiences with racial discrimination in both 2000 and 2019.
A new study led by David H. Chae, an associate professor of human sciences and the director of the Society, Health, and Racial Equity Lab at Auburn University in Alabama, finds that racism may result in premature biological aging among African Americans. The researchers found African Americans who reported being subjected to more racial discrimination over a 10-year period showed signs of faster aging at the cellular level during the same time frame. A common underlying risk factor across many diseases of aging is the length of telomeres — the repetitive sequences of DNA at the ends of chromosomes that protect the cell. Short telomeres increase people’s risks of developing diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and dementia. Because telomeres get progressively shorter as people get older, they are considered to be an indicator of cell aging. Researchers looked at data from a large group of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Oakland, California. Baseline data was collected in 2000 when participants were on average 40 years old and follow-up data was examined in 2010. Participants were asked about their experiences with racial discrimination in both 2000 and 2019.
Last month, 12-year-old Amari Allen appeared on television to share how she had been brutalized by racist white boys at Immanuel Christian School in Springfield, Virginia. The sixth-grader, who is black, wept as she recalled how she was pinned down during recess, had her arms pulled behind her back and had a hand placed over her mouth so she couldn’t scream.
She said the boys cut off her dreadlocks, calling it “nappy.” By Monday, it was revealed that, following an investigation by Fairfax County Police, the girl admitted she had made it all up.
When the story first broke, left-wing politicians and activists raged. Rep. Rashida Tlaib published a personalized message on Twitter to the girl: “You see, Amari, you may not feel it now but you have a power that threatens their core. I can’t wait to watch you use it and thrive.” On Twitter, some even found a way to blame the Trump administration, noting ominously that Vice President Mike Pence’s wife, Karen, teaches art part-time at the school. Read more…
Dane County Health Council Commits to Action on Racism, a Public Health Crisis
Dane County Health Council Commits to Action on Racism, a Public Health Crisis
In Wisconsin, African Americans and Native Americans have the highest excess death rates at every stage of life, and the infant mortality rate for non-Hispanic black women is the highest in the nation, the Dane County Health Council noted in a news release today. In Dane County, black women and men identify persistent, unchanging racial economic inequities as key drivers of health outcomes.
With this in mind, the Dane County Health Council recently signed onto the Wisconsin Public Health Association’s (WPHA) resolution that racism is a public health crisis. The Health Council members, collectively and individually, join more than 20 organizations that have publicly asserted that racism is a problem affecting our entire society.
How Trump helps his supporters justify racism
How Trump helps his supporters justify racism
As any politician could tell you — or, let’s be honest, any Democratic politician — courting particular demographic communities requires subtlety and understanding. You have to know what issues are important to them. You have to know how political power is distributed among them and where key lines of influence are. You have to know which figures they believe are trustworthy proxies and which they don’t.
You have to talk to them without talking down to them, and you have to listen to their concerns. You have to communicate your sincere desire to be an ally without looking like you’re just shamelessly pandering for votes. It’s not easy, whether the community in question is African Americans or Latinos or Jews or Italian Americans or young people or LGBTQ voters.
Most politicians understand how complex that task can be. And then there’s President Trump.
‘Progressive’ racism: Jemele Hill wants ‘black athletes to leave white colleges’
‘Progressive’ racism: Jemele Hill wants ‘black athletes to leave white colleges’
The former ESPN host turned The Atlantic columnist published a piece on Thursday titled, “It’s Time for Black Athletes to Leave White Colleges.” Her misguided essay argues that so-called “white universities” are exploiting top black college athletes for profit.
Hill insists that by choosing en masse to only go to historically black colleges and universities, black athletes “could disrupt the reign of an ‘amateur’ sports system that uses the labor of black folks to make white folks rich.” In other words, she wants black college athletes to self-segregate, because she thinks it would benefit HBCUs and all-black schools.
In her column, Hill correctly notes that “top black athletes used to go to black colleges,” that is, when racial segregation was still in place. Hill points out that before the famous Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision banning school segregation, the options were quite limited as to where African Americans could attend college in some states.
Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Might Be Hurting His 2020 Re-Election Chances
Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Might Be Hurting His 2020 Re-Election Chances
From the day Donald Trump declared his presidential candidacy in 2015, smearing immigrants at the southern border as drug-smuggling rapists who bring “lots of problems,” appeals to bigotry have been integral to his political persona. If his recent spate of racist attacks on four Democratic congresswomen of color are any indication, the president will again exploit racial animus and and xenophobic fearmongering to the greatest possible extent in his re-election bid.
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll, however, suggests that in the current political climate, this strategy might be less useful to Trump in 2020 than it was in 2016. The poll, conducted in July, was designed to measure the racial beliefs and political engagement of voting-age adult Americans. One set of questions asked respondents if they perceive that white people and black people receive equal treatment from law enforcement officials, for example, and in public places like restaurants, hospitals, and courts. In another section, respondents were asked to place whites, African-Americans, Hispanics, and Asians on spectrums ranging from, among others, peaceful to violent and hard-working to lazy.
Trump says he’s ‘the least racist person in the world.’ That’s rich.
Trump says he’s ‘the least racist person in the world.’ That’s rich.
President Trump has said many a ridiculous thing. But his South Lawn growl about Baltimore, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), corruption and “thousands of phone calls from African Americans” was the Burj Khalifa of bull. Nothing epitomized that more than when he said, “I’m the least racist person you’ll find anywhere in the world.”
Okay, saying you’re “the least racist person” is an admission to some racism. But who are we kidding? If you didn’t burst out laughing at the assertion, you don’t know what racism is.
Racism is telling four congresswomen of color to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” All four are American citizens, three of them were born here and one immigrated here when she was 12. Racism is standing back for 13 seconds as Trump supporters chant “Send her back!” about the latter congresswoman at a campaign rally.