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Podcast: Moments in Time with BLisB (B.lack L.ife is S.imply B.eautiful)
Episode: ***News Break***Racism (in America) is declared a public health crisis
Description: Declaring racism a public health crisis entails linking the effects of racism with the crushing chronic stress and poor health it causes. A difficult task in a country like America whose foundation and wealth has been built on, and sustained by, anti-Black racism. “When you use the R-word (racism), people run-Dr. Georges Benjamin (executive director of the American Public Health Association). “They think, no I’m not a racist” and that’s because they only understand it in the personalized racism bucket; they don’t understand structural racism.” Racism extends well beyond name-calling and overtly bigoted acts.