Speaking Up About The Things That Matter: Hidden Forms of Racism

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

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🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Like most of you, I’m feeling the heaviness of our national news. The injustice we continue to be reminded of through violent, devastating acts needs to stop. We cannot tolerate a system that ignores equality and deems it acceptable to ignore a human plea for air, for life. On April 4, 2018, on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, I was honored to be asked to speak at Riverside Church in Harlem.

The day was focused on MLK Jr.’s fight for civil rights and social justice for minorities and the poor. Today, in lieu of airing our previously planned episode, I am instead sharing that talk I gave at Riverside Church just over two years ago, as an acknowledgment of the targeting of Black lives in our society and the need for systemic change to protect Black health and Black lives.

Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” We can no longer be silent about this.

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0:00.0	On April 4, 2018, on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, I was honored to be
0:06.4	asked to speak at the Riverside Church in Harlem. That day was focused on MLK Jr.'s fight for
0:11.9	civil rights and social justice for minorities in the poor. Today, Louv airing our previously
0:16.7	planned episode, I'm instead sharing that talk that I gave at Riverside Church just over two years
0:21.8	ago. I'm doing it as an acknowledgement of the targeting of Black Lives in our society and the
0:27.2	need for systemic change to protect Black health and Black lives. As a doctor, I took an oath to
0:35.1	do no harm. And today I stand here because there is harm being done to millions. I stand here
0:43.7	because I must speak out. We know all too well the visible forms of racism in our society. We know
0:52.2	the inequities in income and opportunity. We know the brutal violence and discrimination of the
0:59.4	police. We know the shooting of Black children. We know the name of Tamir Rice.
1:07.8	We know the name of unarmed Black men shot in the back. We know the name of Stefan Clark.
1:15.7	But what we don't know, we may not know, are the names of millions of African Americans
1:21.3	killed by an invisible form of racism. As silent and insidious injustice. This is an often
1:30.4	internalized force of racism and oppression that disproportionately affects the poor and African
1:36.1	American communities. We do know that 1.3% of all deaths are caused by gun violence and it is real
1:45.7	and it is tragic and it must end. But we may not know that 70% of deaths are caused by chronic
1:55.8	disease the result mostly of our toxic food system. More African Americans are killed by food
2:09.2	than by anything else. The science is clear. Our processed sugary starchy diet is the single
2:16.8	biggest cause of death and disease, type type diabetes, obesity, heart disease, stroke,
2:21.4	high blood pressure, cancer and even dementia. Our food system is the deadliest weapon used against
2:28.4	the poor and minorities keeping them poor and fat and sick, hijacking their brains and their biology.
2:35.6	We are told that it is our personal choice that being fat results from eating too much
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