CDC issues previously unidentified serious threat to public health.

[DiceAreCast]

What a stupid cunt. How puppets like this can ever get elected. Oh I see, all non black voters moved out of the hood, and she was the only one left who did not get knocked up at age 13, and who did not shoot up heroin or smoked crack. Look at her face and how she talks, she has hatred written all over her face. Those are the last people who bring progress and advancement.

Lori Lightfoot:
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[gkishot]

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.

"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."
Makes me wonder how did they establish cause and effect? What kind of social experiments did they conduct? Especially in case of "interpersonal racism".

 

[gkishot]

And herein lies EXACTLY the problem. Some races always look back instead of forward, primarily black and Indigenous people. Do you know what happened to Japanese Americans and Canadians during WWII? They were interned. Do you see a single Japanese American today who moans day in day out? Do you see any of them holding their hands and demanding free handouts that everyone else has to work hard for? No we don't see that. But the fucking left prohibits us from talking about those cultural differences that actually explain 95% of the issues we are today dealing with.

Or Germans as a nation for that matter.

 

[Money Trust]

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.

Agreed.
.....and I'm black.

The thing that you all have to understand about is that almost all black Americans live for victimhood. It's like they get some kind of sexual satisfaction out of it. I actually believe that a lot of them are upset that they didn't live through slavery or Jim Crow. This desire to be a victim is so strong that even when they are doing well, they still feel that they have to keep up with the narrative. "I'm doing very well but I still face racism." That kind of foolishness.

It also doesn't help that they have an extremely unrealistic view of how whites and other ethnic groups live. If you let them tell it, every white family is either rich or earns at least $100k a year, lives in a suburban mansion, has butlers and maids, has inherited wealth and has a huge trust fund setup for their children. When you bring matters back down to reality, the average salary for all ethnicities of men in this country is around $60k. The amount of people earning $100k or better? Of all races and sexes? Around 5% last I checked.

So, there's a lot of retardation going on.

 

[DiceAreCast]

What specifically are you referring to? The not looking forward but back part? Perhaps Germans overall are more introspective than other cultures. But they don't open their hands and demand handouts from everyone around them. But then Germans, as far as I remember history, never were subordinated and subsequently violated by other nations really. I acknowledge the wrongdoing towards blacks or indigenous people in the past. How they dealt with it and whether they moved on or just hold their misery today against everyone else is what makes the difference.

Or Germans as a nation for that matter.

 

[Cuddles]

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: