Wait until reparations will be paid out in the US. You and your family members will pay for something they have never done, crimes committed a long time ago by different people. If Biden is so gung ho on indigenous reparations perhaps he should open his pockets first.
I need to get to bed now, I have my second Pfizer shot early in the morning tomorrow. I have to blame the white man for making me get it. I hate white people, who want to keep me from getting potentially deathly-ill and preventing the spreading of that disease to others...They are a shameful race!
https://www.healthline.com/health/r...iscrimination-is-causing-mental-health-crisis Rise in Asian American Discrimination and Violence During COVID Is Causing Mental Health Crisis https://www.axios.com/racism-health-care-lauren-underwood-5ced9d26-f68d-4296-b45c-11395121c598.html Illinois congresswoman: U.S. health care system has racism "in its foundation" The high maternal mortality rate for Black women in the U.S. is part of the systemic racism that permeates the country's health care system, Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.) told Axios at virtual event on Thursday. Why it matters: The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rates in the developed world, largely due to high mortality rates among Black mothers, according to research by Commonwealth Fund. What she's saying: "So I'm a nurse. And when I was in nursing school, they would tell us about this maternal mortality disparity and say, you know, there's just something about Black women. And it's like, no, there's nothing wrong with Black women," Underwood, co-founder of the Black Maternal Health Caucus, said. How Systemic Racism Continues To Determine Black Health And Wealth In Chicago There is a 30-year gap in the life expectancies of Black and white Chicagoans depending on their ZIP code. On average, residents of the Streeterville neighborhood, which is 73% white, live to be 90 years old. Nine miles south, the residents of Englewood, which is nearly 95% Black, have a life expectancy of 60. Journalist Linda Villarosa says the disparity in life expectancies has its roots in government-sanctioned policies that systematically extracted wealth from Black neighborhoods — and eroded the health of generations of people. She writes about her family's own story in The New York Times Magazine article "Black Lives Are Shorter in Chicago. My Family's History Shows Why." Villarosa says her grandparents, who moved to Chicago from Mississippi during the Great Migration, faced restrictions on where they could live and how they could buy a home. Unable to get a traditional mortgage, her grandfather bought the family home with a contract sale that stipulated he could lose the home if he missed a single payment. "It wasn't until you made all payments that you owned your home outright. So you really had to be in it for the long haul, and nothing could go wrong or else you could lose your home," she says. "Many of the people at the time bought them at inflated prices. So it was hard to keep up the payments. And you didn't have any equity in your home." Villarosa says contract sales and other racists policies sucked away wealth and prevented extensive development in Black communities. Soon, Black families began leaving the city; in 1969, when she was 10, Villarosa's family moved to a white suburb in Colorado. Their old neighborhood began to deteriorate. "That left the community with fewer people," she says. "Health care facilities started to just disappear and schools started to close and jobs dried up, so you saw a neighborhood in decline." Now, more than 50 years later, the Chicago neighborhood where Villarosa's grandparents once lived is peppered with vacant lots and boarded-up buildings. "These neighborhoods lack resources. They lack grocery stores. They lack healthy outdoor space. They often lack clean air and clean water and clean land," she says. "If you live in a place like that — that has few resources but also worse conditions — your health suffers."
Have you seen most black women in the US lately? I bet the obesity rate among black women is the highest among any other group of gender-race combination. It should not come as a surprise then that this causes health issues. Nobody extracted any wealth from black neighborhoods. It's just the rest of the population left. That misery is 100% self made.
CDC information website now live for victims and people eager to learn about this health threat: https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/racism-disparities/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/racism-disparities/impact-of-racism.html Racism is a Serious Threat to the Public’s Health Racism is a system—consisting of structures, policies, practices, and norms—that assigns value and determines opportunity based on the way people look or the color of their skin. This results in conditions that unfairly advantage some and disadvantage others throughout society. Racism—both interpersonal and structural—negatively affects the mental and physical health of millions of people, preventing them from attaining their highest level of health, and consequently, affecting the health of our nation. A growing body of research shows that centuries of racism in this country has had a profound and negative impact on communities of color. The impact is pervasive and deeply embedded in our society—affecting where one lives, learns, works, worships and plays and creating inequities in access to a range of social and economic benefits—such as housing, education, wealth, and employment. These conditions—often referred to as social determinants of health—are key drivers of health inequities within communities of color, placing those within these populations at greater risk for poor health outcomes. The data show that racial and ethnic minority groups, throughout the United States, experience higher rates of illness and death across a wide range of health conditions, including diabetes, hypertension, obesity, asthma, and heart disease, when compared to their White counterparts. Additionally, the life expectancy of non-Hispanic/Black Americans is four years lower than that of White Americans. The COVID-19 pandemic, and its disproportionate impact among racial and ethnic minority populations is another stark example of these enduring health disparities. Racism also deprives our nation and the scientific and medical community of the full breadth of talent, expertise, and perspectives needed to best address racial and ethnic health disparities. To build a healthier America for all, we must confront the systems and policies that have resulted in the generational injustice that has given rise to racial and ethnic health inequities. We at CDC want to lead in this effort—both in the work we do on behalf of the nation’s health and the work we do internally as an organization.
This reminds me of another government agency whose purpose changed. https://nypost.com/2010/07/06/nasa-chief-says-obama-hired-him-to-reach-out-to-muslim-nations/
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/06/17/mayor-lori-lightfoot-systemic-racism-public-health-crisis/ Mayor Lori Lightfoot Declares Racism A Public Health Crisis In Chicago; ‘It Is Literally Killing Us’ CHICAGO (CBS) — Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday declared systemic racism a public health crisis in Chicago, saying disparities in access to effective and affordable health care, the impact of racism on the mental health of people of color, and the subsequent difference in life expectancy “is literally killing us.” “At almost every point in our city’s history, sadly, racism has taken a devastating toll on the health and well-being of our residents of color, and particularly those who are Black,” Lightfoot said. “Without formally acknowledging this history and reality, and the continuing impact of that infamous legacy, looking at the root causes of today’s challenges, we will never be able to move forward as a city and fully provide our communities with the resources that we need to live happy, vibrant, and fulfilled lives.” The mayor made her announcement in the North Lawndale neighborhood, near the site of where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his family lived for six months in 1966, joining a campaign against racist housing policies. In declaring racism to be a public health crisis, Lightfoot joined several other cities around the nation that have made similar proclamations. “When we think about racism, many of us think about it in visible and audible forms, but the reality is the insidious nature of systemic racism has other impacts that are every bit as deep and harmful, but often ones that we can’t see, like the impacts on the psyche and other impacts on our bodies that are just as, if not more deadly,” Lightfoot said. Lightfoot, the city’s first Black woman mayor and first openly lesbian mayor, noted her parents grew up in the segregated Deep South, and both had dreams that were never realized, largely due to racist attitudes in the 1920s. She said her mother wanted to be a nurse, and her father wanted to be a lawyer. “My parents, like so many others of their generation and other generations were indoctrinated to believe that they could never, ever be able to reach for and accomplish their dreams. This was and still is the case for far too many Black residents and residents of color in our city, and ladies and gentlemen, it is literally killing us here in Chicago,” she said. The mayor said, over the past 15 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored racial health disparities in Chicago. “COVID laid bare a lot of disparities. When we started looking at the disproportionate impact of COVID on communities of color in particular, there’s a straight line to the lack of access to safe, affordable, high-quality healthcare,” she said. According to Lightfoot, COVID-19 death rates among Black residents are more than double those of White residents, and the Latinx death rate exceeds the White death rate by 76%. A recent report by the Chicago Department of Public Health revealed the life expectancy rate among Black Chicagoans is 9.2 years shorter than non-Black residents. Lightfoot said that gap has only increased over the past decade. “Those sobering statistics stem from disproportionate rates of chronic diseases born of historic disparities in medical treatment, safe spaces to exercise, access to nutritious food, the overrepresentation of Black and Latinx residents in low-wage and frontline workforces where health care benefits are non-existent in many instances, where employees often work in close proximity to each other and are less able to take paid time off when they are sick. And the list goes on and on,” Lightfoot said. “We can no longer allow racism to rob our residents of the opportunity to live and lead full, happy, and healthy lives.” Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said the death rate from diabetes among Blacks is 70% higher than non-Blacks in Chicago; the homicide rate among Blacks in Chicago is nine times higher than among non-blacks; Black infants are nearly three times as likely to die as non-Black infants; Black people account for half of the city’s residents living with HIV; and opiod-related overdose deaths among Blacks is more than three times the rate among non-Blacks. “There is nothing natural about these statistics. They are unjust and they are preventable,” she said. Arwady announced the city will allocate $9.6 million in COVID-19 relief funds from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to establish Healthy Chicago Equity Zones; six geographic areas covering the entire city. Community groups in each of those six areas of the city will lead efforts to come up with targeted strategies to improve community wellness. City officials have chosen six organizations to lead those efforts in each of the six Healthy Chicago Equity Zones:
First time ever blacks had a say, now as mayors of inner impoverished cities that nobody gives a shit about anymore. Of course they only scream for handouts and freebees exactly as indigenous people here in Canada do. What racism leaves any black person behind today? Are you joking with me? If anything blacks are the absolutely most privileged class in America today without doing a thing. Preferential and sometimes exclusive black hiring practices (to meet leftist company's quotas), health care subsidies, inner city subsidies, foot stamps, social welfare housing, academic preferential treatment (affirmative action).... If anyone has a right to scream injustice then it's white males today.