Morntint☀️🌞
Chyyyyyle! When it comes time to actually do the work of divesting from white supremacy culture, policy, practices, processes, & protocols, healthcare, medical, & public health systems hide behind impotent, un-funded DEI committees & taskforce that have no real power
Real change requires identifying and uprooting cultures of whiteness encoded in the operations & infrastructure of these institutions & disrupting the power dynamics that maintain health disparities as well as the underrepresentation of Black folks in organizational leadership.
Health disparities and Underrepresentation are not accidental.
They are by design.
They are preventable.
It will take focused strategic collective & structural intentional action to undo them.
Call out & call for an end to AntiBlackness in medicine/healthcare/publc hlth becos antiracism in healthcare & public health is LITERALLY a matter of life & death.
🧵 Here’s a sampling of books on or including info on Race Science/Race medicine/Scientific racism. Feel free to add to the list. Save, share, tag folks. Also, let me know if you’ve read any of them & your take-aways.
How have they shaped/influenced your work?
List ⬇️. #AIMART
Good morntint🌞
I am still surprised at how many super highly educated people with authority & power 2 whom I have to explicitly state these words:
“Human Race Is A Sociopolitical Construct #HRIASC invented by white supremacism for the purpose of economic power hoarding.” #AIMART
Again, I wouldn’t be a millennial professor if I didn’t make an @instagram reel/TikTok about it 😁😆😊
We stay reminding MDs, PhDs, RNs, PharmDs, DPTs, SLPs, ABCDs, XYZs, 5-Os, & C3POs that
Race is NOT biological &
Racism is the vector of health disparities. @EndRC2022#AIMART
Biological race is a racist lie created 2 justify American chattel slavery, settler & non-settler colonialism, & imperialism. That lie was created to encode the belief in the biological inferiority of Black bodies into America’s cultural, economic, legal, & political core.#AIMART
There’s a tweet making its rounds that’s truly annoying as it illustrates the stubborn inability/refusal of nice liberal white folks” to be critically self aware, particularly of their own white body privilege & positionality.
See screenshot.
(Choosing not to RT)
So, a 🧵
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👉🏿There’s no such thing as being “apolitical”. Politics is life. Everything about our lives & living is informed by politics & we inform the dynamics of said politics by our participation or lack thereof.
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The notion that one is “apolitical” is intentionally ignorant, arrogantly, & usually a cop-out from being held accountable for one’s decisions or lack thereof. It is often the position of a person who holds privilege or body advantage in an unjust & unequal society or …
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CONTRIBUTING FACTORS
that increase the risk of MMH among Black women:
👉🏿Structural racism & intersectional systemic violence/oppression, including misogynoir
👉🏿Unemployment
👉🏿Exposure to violence
👉🏿Gaps in medical insurance
👉🏿Adverse Childhood Experiences
& more 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿
On this upcoming International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery & Transatlantic SlaveTrade 3/25 & International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 3/21, I'm remembering how Black people were cared for by Veterinarians along with white folks' animals. 1/
I’m remembering how we weren’t seen by human physicians unless our case was complex or “interesting” and were serving the role of “teaching material” for the education of white physicians or “research materials” for experimentation and research to improve white health.
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I’m remembering how not much has changed today as practices such as “race correction” continue to uphold the current system of medical apartheid that undervalues Black bodies, minds, and souls in the Canadian and US health/healthcare/pubic health system.
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Morntint☀️
Now that you washed the crust from yo’ eyes & done your morntint meditation - can’t wait to see you 1pmET this aftrnoon on @TwitterSpaces
for the crisis management that is #AIMART becos
📣Global AntiBlackness is a Global Health Crisis!
🌍Africa*Asia*MidEast