Racism, medical inequality and Black health / Anne Pollock

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🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Global health scholar Anne Pollock on her book "Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States" from The University of Minnesota Press. https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/sickening

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0:40.0	manufacturing descent since 1996. This is hell as the government and the media do
0:47.0	their best to try and convince us of their fantasy that we're all in this
0:51.6	together. Reality keeps proving otherwise.
0:55.0	It's not only that we are not all in this together
0:59.0	when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic.
1:01.0	It's not only that we are not all in this together when it comes to how our lives are policed.
1:06.7	We are also not all in this together when it comes to the most basic aspects of life,
1:10.9	like the degree to which we lead a healthy life, and for how long?
1:15.0	All of those inequalities which keep us from ever being in anything together
1:21.0	are driven by racism, which has been institutionalized here in the United States.
1:26.5	As long as that pervasive racism persists, we will never be in anything together. We can't be. Racism, as African Americans acutely know, is bad for your health.
1:39.0	Whether it's being a victim of poverty or police violence or poisoned by environmental hazards to your health.
1:45.0	Concerns being or your health concerns being dismissed or ignored by medical professionals
1:51.0	or a complete lack of access to health care altogether, racism can
1:56.5	be deadly. And here in the United States that deadly racism against African Americans is so
2:01.8	baked into the system.
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