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Dennis OConnor

It is undeniable: Racism is a public health crisis - Healthcare Anchor Network - 0 views

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  • Dennis OConnor on 27 Sep 20
     
    "39 health systems in 45 states and Washington, DC have committed to addressing racism and the public health disparities caused by racism."
Dennis OConnor

Intersectionality, explained: meet Kimberlé Crenshaw, who coined the term - Vox - 1 views

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  • The current debate over intersectionality is really three debates: one based on what academics like Crenshaw actually mean by the term, one based on how activists seeking to eliminate disparities between groups have interpreted the term, and a third on how some conservatives are responding to its use by those activists.
  • the American legal and socioeconomic order was largely built on racism.
  • Crenshaw argued that the court’s narrow view of discrimination was a prime example of the “conceptual limitations of ... single-issue analyses” regarding how the law considers both racism and sexism.
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  • Judge Harris Wangelin ruled against the plaintiffs, writing in part that “black women” could not be considered a separate, protected class within the law, or else it would risk opening a “Pandora’s box” of minorities who would demand to be heard in the la
  • Crenshaw’s theory went mainstream, arriving in the Oxford English Dictionary in 2015 and gaining widespread attention during the 2017 Women’s March,
  • “What was puzzling is that usually with ideas that people take seriously, they actually try to master them, or at least try to read the sources that they are citing for the proposition. Often, that doesn’t happen with intersectionality
  • Beginning in 2015 and escalating ever since, the conservative response to intersectionality has ranged from mild amusement to outright horror.
  • When you talk to conservatives about the term itself, however, they’re more measured. They say the concept of intersectionality — the idea that people experience discrimination differently depending on their overlapping identities — isn’t the problem.
  • the idea is more or less indisputable.
  • What many conservatives object to is not the term but its application on college campuses and beyond.
  • “Where the fight begins,” French said, “is when intersectionality moves from descriptive to prescriptive.”
  • “There have always been people, from the very beginning of the civil rights movement, who had denounced the creation of equality rights on the grounds that it takes something away from them.”
  • To Crenshaw, the most common critiques of intersectionality — that the theory represents a “new caste system” — are actually affirmations of the theory’s fundamental truth: that individuals have individual identities that intersect in ways that impact how they are viewed, understood, and treated.
  • But Crenshaw said that contrary to her critics’ objections, intersectionality isn’t “an effort to create the world in an inverted image of what it is now.” Rather, she said, the point of intersectionality is to make room “for more advocacy and remedial practices” to create a more egalitarian system.
  • She wants to get rid of those existing power dynamics altogether — changing the very structures that undergird our politics, law, and culture in order to level the playing field.
  • efforts to eliminate gender disparities would require examining how women of color experience gender bias differently from white women (and how nonwhite men do too, compared to white men).
  • Once we acknowledge the role of race and racism, what do we do about it? And who should be responsible for addressing racism, anyway?
  • Dennis OConnor on 25 Sep 20
     
    "The current debate over intersectionality is really three debates: one based on what academics like Crenshaw actually mean by the term, one based on how activists seeking to eliminate disparities between groups have interpreted the term, and a third on how some conservatives are responding to its use by those activists."
Dennis OConnor

Systemic racism's major role in who lives, dies and gets help in the pandemic - CNN - 0 views

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  • Dennis OConnor on 24 Aug 20
     
    Recommended by Janice O'Connor: These variables affect whether you live, die or get help during the pandemic. Race affects who can flee from a viral hotspot to a second home, who can't distance from infected co-workers and much more. Systemic racism is a public health issue, and the pandemic is making it worse.
Dennis OConnor

www.WhiteAccomplices.org - 1 views

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  • “If you have come here to help me, you’re wasting your time. If you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”
  • Dennis OConnor on 21 Sep 20
     
    Recommended by Sheri-Lynn Kurisu "The ideas captured on this website, very much a work in progress, have been developed to support White people to act for racial justice. It draws from ideas and resources developed mostly by Black, Brown and People of Color, and has been edited by Black, Brown, and People of Color.  I recognize that categorizing actions under the labels of Actor, Ally, and Accomplice is an oversimplification, but hopefully this chart challenges all of us White folks to go outside of our comfort zones, take some bigger risks, and make some more significant sacrifices because this is what we've been asked to do by those most impacted by racism, colonialism, patriarchy, white supremacy, xenophobia, and hyper-capitalism. I believe that for real change to occur, we must confront and challenge all people, policies, systems, etc., that maintain privileges and power for White people."
Dennis OConnor

Mental Health in the Age of Black Lives Matter - Kintsugi - 0 views

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  • Dennis OConnor on 21 Oct 20
     
    "Accessibility and systemic discrimination bars many from being able to get the help they need. Mental health disparities that affect the black community include inequitable access, diagnosis, and treatment, and overall, more severe symptoms. Among adults with the same diagnosed mental health or addiction issue, 37.6% of White patients received treatment, while only 25% of African American patients did. Fighting for racial equality means fighting for equality in mental health care, and supporting black lives means supporting black mental health and recognizing racial trauma."
Dennis OConnor

Justice by (re)design | TED Talks - 0 views

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shared by Dennis OConnor on 03 Oct 20 - No Cached
  • Dennis OConnor on 03 Oct 20
     
    "Necessary rethinks and ambitious yet achievable solutions for redesigning systems to work for all people, not just some"
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