Alert: Chicago Mayor Declares Racism a Public Health Crisis
Posted on June 18, 2021
Is racism a public health crisis in Chicago and other parts of America? Evidently, the Mayor of Chicago – one of the deadliest cities in America – believes so.
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“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,’” according to CBS Chicago. [emphasis added]
“‘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.’…
“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 harmfulif not more deadly,” Lightfoot said.” [emphasis added]
For more of this report, please go to CBS Chicago.
Poster Comment:
Back in 1968 on the day that MLK, Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis, my Mom was driving back home from Montgomery Ward catalog pick up. She was driving on Clybourn Ave on near NW side. She told me those people came running out of those buildings. They put a brick in the windshield and a bottle thru the driver side window. She got a cut on her pinkie. She stopped to talk to a cop. He told her, "Go home and call the station." The blacks burned down much of the west side and there was a dusk to dawn curfew. My Mom had nothing to do with any of that in Memphis, but the black anger boiled over and she was caught in the middle of it.
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Darkwing posted on 2021-06-19 08:06:38 Reply Private Reply
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I bet they thought it was real lark. Of course they were your co- workers and had the luck to land a government job.
I worked with a couple of black guys on Illinois Highways. I asked one of them once, "How did you two guys get your jobs?" He replied, "They just needed a couple of niggers." :-O
When we would go out litter picking they would tell us, "Don't be picking up those beer bottles." Since they would drink while driving and piss in the bottles and throw them out the window of the car. YECH! ICKY!
BTP Holdings posted on 2021-06-19 12:16:42 Reply Private Reply