‘Long overdue’: lawmakers declare racism a public health emergency

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Black and Brown Americans are susceptible to higher rates of infant mortality, heart disease and even an advanced aging process

Long before a white police officer killed George Floyd and sparked nationwide outrage, long before Covid-19 began killing Black people at twice the rate of their white counterparts, doctors and health experts were raising alarms that systematic racism is itself a pervasive, deadly pandemic – one that kills both instantaneously and insidiously, burdens Black and Brown Americans with generational trauma, contributes to higher rates of infant mortality and heart disease, and even speeds up the...

 

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Good luck passing laws against diseases and aging 🤷

To all levels of government and businesses both big and small, start with a simple step - change the language to start changing the dialogue. Stop using the “minority” label. Remove this from ALL forms, applications, surveys etc... STOPTHELABELS NOMOREMINORITY

The media is just nauseating

Jesus H Christ.

The Guardian’s founder made his fortune in the cotton trade & supported the South in the Civil War & denounced Lincoln for freeing the slaves. boycotttheguardian

Sadly the same applies in Australia. Not great outcomes for our indigenous peoples

Another sh..storm.

where is the resist nurse protest.

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'Long overdue'? By at least 300 years

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