Can racism make you sick?

An Arm and a Leg

Society & Culture, Medicine, Health, Health & Fitness, Documentary

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Something different: We talk with journalist Cara Anthony about topics that don’t always come up in conversations about the cost of health care.

For the last four years, she’s been reporting on the public health effects of racism, violence, and intergenerational trauma in a small Missouri town.. The result: A new documentary and podcast series called Silence in Sikeston.

She sat down with us to talk about the value of breaking silences and the possibility for healing.

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0:00.0	Hey there. We're doing something a little different this time. This story is not about the cost of health care, not in dollars and cents. And it's actually not about doctors or hospitals or medicines, but it's a story about health and about
0:16.3	sickness and injury and about how people can care for each other and help each
0:22.1	other heal. And I'll tell you it's a tough story.
0:27.0	This is a story about racism and violence and ongoing intergenerational trauma.
0:33.8	So, you know, however you might need to take care of yourself
0:36.8	around a story like this, I want you to do that.
0:40.9	But this is a story I've been hearing about and looking forward to talking about for years.
0:47.0	Kara Anthony is a Midwest correspondent with our partners at KFF Health News and she's been working on a documentary and a
0:54.0	podcast about this story since 2020 and now her work silence in Sykeston is out in the
1:01.4	world PBS aired the documentary in September and the fourth and final
1:06.0	podcast episode came out just last week. And they connect the stories of two young black fathers who were killed in the small town of Sykston, Missouri, almost 80 years apart.
1:19.2	Cleo Wright was lynched by a white mob in 1942. They dragged him from the jail to the black section of town,
1:26.3	and they doused his body with gasoline and let the fire in front of a church on a Sunday morning.
1:33.2	In 2020, Denzel Taylor was killed by Sykeston police.
1:37.4	He was unarmed.
1:39.2	Police fired at least 18 shots.
1:48.1	So the podcast, Silence in Saxton, it explores racism and violence and systemic bias as public health problems, literally making people sick across whole communities and
1:55.6	across generations.
1:58.0	And it asks, among other things, can breaking silences be healing?
2:05.0	This is an arm and a leg, and usually it's a show about why health care costs so freaking much and what we can maybe do about it.
2:16.0	I'm Dan Weisman. I'm a reporter.
2:18.0	I'm thankful to get to talk with Kara Anthony about her work.
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