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Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, MD, FAAP, FAIM Profile picture
@innodim
Apr 14 • 7 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
POV: When someone at your antiracism & anticoloniality training session asks why “everything has to be about race.” 👀

Cos ma’am…it is. 👀

As designed by delusional white supremacism and whiteness.
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Racism is the status quo & the default setting of this society and exported globally on the wings of imperialism and colonialism.

Denial is the heartbeat of racism.

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White & global minority discomfort & denial of racism, antiBlackness, & white supremacism in service of addressing all other issues such as sexism, ableism, xenophobia displays a poor understanding of Intersectionality and that multiple truths can be held at once.
The great both/and.

We appreciate that history teaches us that antiBlackness & racism AS A SYSTEM (containing and maintained by people) underpins the other forms of oppression.

The survivors of oppression have no choice but to name their oppression in order to be free.
The creators, perpetrators, and beneficiaries of oppression have a choice to participate as co-liberators with the oppressed OR to protect their own power and privilege, by denying the existence of oppression, derailing conversations, or silencing the voices & experiences…
of structurally excluded and resource denied communities.

Guess which option is often chosen? 🤔

So Ma’am, next time, Imma need you to read the session description & do background research of presenters before you download your happy ass to my session…
…to regale us of your dissertation on why oppressive systems should be kept in place because “what’s the alternative?”

🗣️MA’AM!!!

Anti racism is a matter of Life & Death✊🏾

#AIMART
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Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, MD, FAAP, FAIM Profile picture
Apr 12
Good Morntint🌞
It was such a treat to be a mystery reader AGAIN for my 9 year old, Ugochinyere🥰💕
When I say 3rd graders are a whole vibe! 😍
We read “Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba” by Ekiuwa Aire (Cos you’re gonna get this African History baby!) and “The day you begin”… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
…by the incomparable Jacqueline Woodson & illustrated by Rafael Lopez.
As I always say, please have a family curriculum of reading & storytelling no matter the age: from the womb to the tomb. At my big age, one of my favorite things to do is listen to my parents’ stories… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
…, both of them phenomenal story tellers & animated readers. Read and tell stories about African/Black History and culture - pre-colonial to modern times.

Our lives and stories didn’t start with the violence of colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade. Image
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Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, MD, FAAP, FAIM Profile picture
Feb 10
Morntint☀️
A 🧵 for the whites & whites-adjacents who feign race-naïveté

Racism is NOT hatred.
Racism is NOT ignorance.
Racism is NOT oldness.

Racism is not even about being a good or bad person.

This is highly reductive & falsely simplistic…by design.

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So that it’s easy to brush off violent oppressive behaviors as: “Oh, don’t mind him/her/them - they’re just “crazy”/“stupid”/ignorant/old/young/didn’t mean it. Thereby minimizing the harm done to the target/victim/survivor of the perpetrator’s violence AND the entire system.

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A system (which includes the commenter) that’s supporting & reinforcing the perpetrator’s racist behavior.

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Oct 21, 2022
Super excited to witness the celebration of @drtlaleng’s report on Racism @UN special rapporteur on the Right to Health, to United States General Assembly & the @TheLancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination and Global Health, along with the co-leadership of @udnore✊🏾
Watch:
“I think of my 8 yr old self living in Apartheid South Africa… none of this is normal, yet a so much of it is normalized.”
“I bring a true anti racist, anti-colonial, intersectional lens to my analysis.”
“Racism is a key determinant of health.”
“We want 2 use targeted research & collaboration to foster cross-sectoral policy conversations…we need 2 address the power shifts that need to happen.”
“I’m intentionally not using the term “decolonization” becos true decolonization requires a humility that is not yet present.”
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Oct 20, 2022
This is one example of how to start an article when you’re about to get into disparity data. From Dr. Montoya-Williams & team. You set the table with ✨Context✨ because the “why” behind racial disparities has been beyond settled. No one should be “surprised” anymore. @DrDianaMW ImageImage
More on the article⬆️ ImageImageImage
I’m still trying to figure out how to make Dr. Lisinkova’s study accessible as it is not open access. Here are screenshots of the abstract. ImageImageImage
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Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, MD, FAAP, FAIM Profile picture
Oct 12, 2022
Firstly, wow.
I had NO idea this story would strike such a nerve. I just put it out as a means of processing my own feelings & experience.
Thank you for your love, compassion, humanism, & shared anger, sadness, & determination to create better for our children & each other.
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Super importantly, I want to shout out my intern, Dr. G (she’s not on Twitter) who was also on the case & handled an extremely challenging encounter w/ grace & compassion. I’m grateful to her providing me the opportunity to pass on the valuable lessons my teachers taught me.

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It helps remind me as well as keep me accountable.
Also, I’d like to share that I called her after clinic to debrief with her. When something so jolting happens, we cannot just push it under the emotional carpet &move on to the next patient, the next task, the next whatever.
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Oct 11, 2022
Today was a tough one. Little baby girl comes in for “recurrent UTIs”. Parent is frustrated because she’s been to ER multiple times this year when these symptoms started where she’s given antibiotics & sent home. But symptoms always come back - belly pain, pain in urination,…
discharge, foul odor. She goes back to ER - antibiotics & sent home. & the cycle continues.

But, wayment - vaginal discharge? Foul odor?
UTI?

Nope. Nope. That ain’t right. Okay, let’s consciously avoid anchoring bias and THINK.

When is a “UTI” not a UTI?
When it’s an STI.
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