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Please stop reading White Fragility.

Stop recommending it.

Stop sharing it.
Read Killing the Black Body or Fatal Invention by @DorothyERoberts

Read Racecraft by Barbara and Karen Fields

Read Medical Apartheid by @haw95

Read The Warmth of Other Suns by @Isabelwilkerson

Read Sister Citizen by @MHarrisPerry

Read The Pushout by @MoniqueWMorris
White Fragility caters to readers who want controlled self-flagellation for their complicity and participation in systems that deeply harm folks of color and Black folks in particular.
The intersecting forms of violence that shorten Black lives do not come from a social, economic, or political position of “fragility.”

It comes from the forces outlined in these books.

Then Read “This Bridge Called My Back” to understand why I shouldn’t even have to say this.
And to the folks of color and Black Women in particular who are being asked to be everything for everyone right now. To work, teach, support and show up (often for free) everywhere. I see you. I love you.

If you can, read The Bridge Poem by Kate Rushin

katerushinpoet.com/index.php/the-…
Read Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Read Race After Technology by @ruha9 and her brilliant edited book of essays

Read Thick by @tressiemcphd

Read Eloquent Rage by @ProfessorCrunk

Read every book ever written by Toni Morrison and start with The Bluest Eye
Read Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston

Read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by @DrMayaAngelou

Read the enormous contributions of prolific scholar and activist bell hooks, start with Killing Rage: Ending Racism or even her essays
To be clear, I am suggesting these books because they provide actual analysis. The authors situate that analysis within ideological traditions they clearly name. And they explicitly interrogate the intersecting forms of oppression that power institutional racism. This is the bar.
If your favorite text on racism is not doing these things, it is insufficient to prepare you to confront and abolish racism and its many ill effects.
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Public schools are a critical terrain of struggle for equality in the US. They are spaces where kids AND communities access the resources vital to health, mobility, and longer life spans.

Here's what I think it takes to *safely* re-open schools. Thread. thenation.com/article/societ…
1. A robust social safety net.

The US is a deeply unequal country. That inequality is growing and it impacts everyone, including kids. In the face of chasms between the richest and the poorest, schools have served as both a remedy to and a reflection of unchecked inequality.
2. Schools have become depots for basic needs like food, healthcare, and internet because we lack the political will to invest in the safeguards that insulate families and communities from impoverishment and its related poor health effects.

But US schools are also segregated.
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Schools are critical sites for children's learning, development, social and emotional well-being.

@AmerAcadPeds wants to ensure our kids have access to the vital resources schools provide.

This administration does not.

As a pediatrician, I want to talk about schools opening.
Decades of work has placed critical supports inside of schools.

Let's review some examples.

1. Food - Schools feed 35 million kids a day. These meals make up more than 2/3rds of their nutritional needs. School closures threaten that vital food source.
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
2. Special Education - Schools are mandated to meet the educational needs of all learners and must evaluate and provide (for free!) any therapy or accommodations learners need to thrive.
www2.ed.gov/parents/needs/…
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The bar to publish on racial health inequities is too low.

So @mclemoremr @EdwinLindo @Lachelle_Dawn and I set a new bar in @Health_Affairs.

Rule 1. NEVER reify biological race (it is not a thing)

Rule 2. Examine racism as a cause of health inequities

bit.ly/31B2Suv
We open this paper with Strange Fruit, a poem by Abel Meeropol, popularized by Billie Holiday, one of our greatest voices.

We do so because "racism remains a bloodying force, structuring every facet of [American] life."

To examine racial health inequities, we must begin here.
We cite recent articles that made troubling errors in analyzing racial health inequities.

The point is to confront the racist analytical frames that pass right under our noses. That readers see but don't catch. Or catch, but don't challenge.

We are challenging them, publicly.
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