The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday said that racism in the United States is “serious threat” that structurally impacts racial and ethnic groups, including where they live, work and gather in a community.
“Confronting the impact of racism will not be easy,” Director of the CDC and Peabody native Dr. Rochelle Walensky said in a statement. “I know that we can meet this challenge. I know that we can create an America where all people have the opportunity to live a healthy life. I know that we can do this if we work together. ”
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC labeled racism an epidemic.
The pandemic thus far has disproportionately affected communities of color. Those communities have experienced higher numbers of infections and deaths linked to the virus.
“The disparities seen over the past year were not a result of COVID-19,” Walensky said. “Instead, the pandemic illuminated inequities that have existed for generations and revealed for all of America a known, but often unaddressed, epidemic impacting public health: racism.”
CDC expanded the definition of racism beyond discrimination but said it also included the structural affects it has on communities. The CDC said over generations systemic inequities have resulted in “stark racial and ethnic health disparities.”
“Confronting the impact of racism will not be easy,” Walensky said. “We must recognize that we are working to overcome centuries of discrimination. We will only be successful in undoing the entrenched systemic and structural barriers if we work in collaboration with our public health partners, and deeply within our communities, across the country.”
In addressing racism, the CDC shared an interactive map created by the American Public Health Association that depicts communities in the United States that have declared racism a public health crisis or emergency. Currently, there are 170 declarations nationwide, including 19 in Massachusetts.
Only California with 27 and Ohio with 25 have more declarations within a state.
The CDC plans to address the crisis in a number of ways.
The agency plans to continue studying the impact of social determinants on public health and share the evidence on how racism affects pubic health.
Through COVID funding, the CDC plans to expand investments in racial and ethnic minority communities that are disproportionately affected by COVID or other health conditions.
The agency also is expanding its efforts to foster greater diversity within the CDC.
Finally, the federal agency is launching a web portal called “Racism and Health,” to serve as a catalyst for public and scientific discourse around racism and health.
“I know that we can meet this challenge,” Walensky said. “I know that we can create an America where all people have the opportunity to live a healthy life. I know that we can do this if we each take responsibility and work together.”
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The same CDC that gave us fauci the waddling liar. Disband this terrorist organization, NOW.
I wonder, what is their idea to reverse ‘racism’? MAKE a shot to cure it?
but you’ll still have to wear a useless mask
Untill the end of time… NOW mask up, you schlemming.
Faulsi is a puppet…..and how does it fit into CDC agenda? Maybe slavery and reparations will be next?
“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday said that racism in the United States is “serious threat”….. Huh???
Note the new disgusting Democrat Party’s new go to, catchword “Racism/Racist”.
It is another accusation that the Democrats DO NOT have to prove, like “sexual harassment”, just accuse someone and presto they are guilty.
(Nancy Pelosi admitted an unfortunate truth about her President Trump impeachment “farce”
– It hinges on witness’s “allegations” not “proof.
https://youtu.be/7dzhIxeF204
This is another Democrat Party CON and political ploy to divide us.
I live most people DO NOT CARE what race one belongs to.
I meet someone I accept them as a respectable person,
until by their own character or actions prove different.
It must be racist to acknowledged that:
I.A.W. U.S. Census & FBI (Table 43a) Black males make up about 6% of the U.S. population but commit 53% of all the murders and 55% of all robberies in the U.S. Every year.
But if one is cautious around black males they are accused and found guilty of “racism”,
but only by Democrats.
Don’t believe or support the dishonorable, dishonest, destructive Democrat Party or their Fake News/propaganda outlets. THEY LIE.
come on man ..scruff… this country is so racist… it actually elected a 1/2 African American man for President …twice.
AND if we really was that racist, WE WOULDN’T be letting in SO DAMN MANY foreigners…
Well actually about 9 % negro, 41% arab, and 50% white. That is if the woman claiming to be his mother actually was.
It’s not racism that is a serious threat, it is the Democratic Party along with its militant arm, BLM and Antifa that is a serious threat.
Absolutely right.
AND the entire teacher’s (I mean indoctrinators) Unions!
This race baiting Democrat Party of finger pointers and skin division needs to look only to themselves in the very racism they foment in America to attack White American culture and purity as evil, every bit as worse than anything ever created by the past dark side of White America. They seek to justify their own cultural failures by Judging and condemning the white race on the basis of envy and skin color, rather than the basis of progress and accomplishment, and in so doing, their faux claimed progressivism just regresses America’s soul and spirit back to the jungle warfare’s of the survival of the most deceptive and evil, where their intolerable attempts at power politics would now reign over compromise, tolerance, workable moral pursuits, and lifestyles that lead to lives of rising excellence. It is their own proffered racism and refusal to discriminate between successful and unsuccessful, legal and illegal attempts at life pursuits, which leads to a more serious threat to society than any pandemic. If the Angel of COVID death passes over your community, it is not because of Liberal blood of the social sheep and lambs spilled on to the streets and doorposts in Democrat run communities of released criminal passions. It is because Donald J Trump and his administration and party of accomplishment painted your doorsteps in Early vaccines which have nothing to do with skin color.
“Director of the CDC and Peabody native Dr. Rochelle Walensky” are you going to have Thanksgiving Dinner with Dr. Birx?????? Maybe Dr. Birx can give you a scarf with the word “racist” on it, right WaIensky? Then when you look in the mirror, you will know what a “racist” looks like, Walensky!!!!! I think we should close down the obviously racist CDC and Dr. Fauci’s racist National Institute of Allergies and Infectious diseases. With the CDC closed down and Fauci’s NIAID closed down, we can put these clowns on trial for being “racist” against the law abiding American people. It is amazing and frightening how many incompetent Airheads / communists, we have running our government. How did fascists / stupid fools like this ever become Doctors?
Maybe we shouldn’t sound more unhinged than Walensky and Biden. What does Thanksgiving dinner (in April?) have to do with this and racist scarves?
We are in serious trouble just as we knew we were going to be if Biden won. Some of the people I admire most in conservative circles are emphasizing taking back the local and state governments that we have let slide into Democrat hands. In order to do that we need to show more common sense than the radical left is showing.
The CDC should not have anything to do with racism. I would hope the courts would know that but we have an evenly split court, at best, no matter what the Republicans say. Roberts is firmly on the left and the Colorado judge is on the left about half the time. No one knows what Barrett will do yet. She hasn’t voted on many cases because she wasn’t on the court when they were heard. But she did go left on the election cases so things are not looking good for America.
Leonidas, With regard to Thanksgiving Dinner, Birx told everyone for Thanksgiving 2020 to stay home and then she went to her vacation home with her relatives to celebrate Thanksgiving. So I think these two peas in a pod, Birx and Walensky, should celebrate Thanksgiving together in 2021.
Hence why we no longer CAN TRUST the scotus… THEY ARE JUST too damn feckless/corrupt.
Backpacker, I know that Birx ran off for Thanksgiving dinner after telling Americans to stay home. What I don’t see is what the hell Thanksgiving and Birx have to do with THIS article. But, that’s all right, you seem happy in your own world.
Oh, cry.me a river.
How about some of the ultra rich ashholes lecturing us on bogus racism go live in the poor ethnic communities & use their own money to open up & personally manage some grocery, drug & dept stores that are regularly shut down due to massive shoplifting, vandalism & violent crime committed by the illiterate POC drug addicts, school dropouts, scammers, hustlers, illegal aliens, gang bangers & vicious criminals that the taxpaying hard working American citizens if all races are fed up with being terrorized by & forced to pony up billions $ to support.
Yes, time for all the trash talking stinking rich POC’s like Oprah, Kaepernick, Obama, Sharpton, Holder, Lemon, Jay Z / Beyonce & the cheap labor loving Corp tyrants stop the phony “White” people bashing & use their millions to go live in & setup businesses in the crime ridden ghettos & find out how they like being ripped off, burned down, bankrupted, vandalized & terrorized.
White citizens are getting sick of being blamed & penalized for the self inflicted misery & criminal behavior of POC.
So true. I AM sick to death of overpaid hack rich billionaires/millionares, telling us POOR WHITES< we are "too privileged"..
and lemme ax you, libs — if “racism” was real, would those black zillionaires be so rich?; they would serve whites as /kitchen helpers/gardeners/slaves, etc. So it just ain’t kosher to feed us with those !@#!@^###!
anything…. and I mean …ANYTHING… that doesn’t promote the communist occupier democrat / rino agenda of shoving communism and the new world order up our keisters …so they can profit from it… is racist. The problem they have now .. they used the race card so many times… no one gives a damn.. and… is not listening.
TELL that to all the companies STILL CAVING into leftists, CAUSE of the race card begin played.
Walensky and progressive liberals such as she is, are dangerous nuts!
The Democrat Party is responsible for the greatest portion of the racism in America. Perceived and real.
Yes that is correct. If these leftist race baiters would stop their incessant lying and read THEIR OWN HISTORY – well, we can at least dream . . .
History is racist… Didn’t you get the memo.
Blah, blah, blah… RACISM!
blah, blah, blah… RACISM!
Done with that kooky BS.
How about we get some working fathers in those homes and stop bitching about White People for a while.
According to the FBI Crime Statistics report for 2019 (the latest year available) Whites, who make up over 70% of the population accounted for 52.5% of all hate crimes. Blacks, who make up less than 15% of the population, accounted for 23.9%.
What does than mean? Well, if you believe what the Liberals at the CDC tell you; That Whites are the ONLY race capable of racism, Whites are not acting on their racism enough because 100% of all racial hate crimes should be committed by Whites.
Instead we see 70+% of the population committing just over 50% of the hate crimes. Blacks make up less than 1/4 the population that Whites do, but commit half as many hate crimes. Meaning that individual Blacks are TWICE as likely to commit a racial hate crime as individual Whites. . . But we already knew that.
What you probably didn’t know is that Blacks are the people MOST LIKELY to commit a hate crime against Asians, who seem to be their favorite people to attack after Whites. Whites continue to be the most common victims of hate crimes committed by all other races across the board.
This from one of the biggest racists of them all is comical. If she and Fauci are all they have it needs shut down.
Cum ALa (him) used a black dude to get where she is now…she pulled herself not by bootstraps, but by her….you-know-what.
BTW – out of 22 Dem presidential candidates she was the FIRST one to drop out. Now she is second at the helm of USA.
what a sad circus
Only ONE group has pushed foul racism for the last 160 years. We, the North fought the Democrat Party, for President Lincoln and won. But the stinking Democrats formed the Ku Klux Klan and began hanging black free people like strange fruit. That was not enough for those racists. The Democrat Party then passed Jim Crow Laws to harm free black people. Again these creeps were not satisfied with the damage they inflicted. Next the Democrat Party pushed segregation to harm free black people. Their crown jewel was voting against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. CDC, you fools, eliminate the Democrat Party if you truly want to stop the damage caused be racist pigs.
I often wonder why God doesn’t send another plague to wipe out 95% of the population—the percentage of stupidity on this planet. You hear all about YFO’s and you notice none of them ever stop here to interact because with their advanced technology, I am certain that they are well aware of the insanity on Earth and they want no part of it. The Center for Democratic Control expanded the definition of racism, so the article says. The dictionary definition certainly doesn’t apply because every other word out of the mouth of a Democrat is “racist” Physically grown adults, and supposedly well educated, constantly finger-pointing and name calling—acting like spoiled brats. They need to be placed in permanent time out. I am so sick of this ****. The Democrat Party has too many answers in search of a problem, so they create them at will.
If God did that… no one would be left in washington DC
GOOD.. MAYBE that is what is needed!
I am writing this from the floor upon which I fell after reading the totally insane position being spouted by that head of CDC – YGBSM!! She is crazier than AOC and Bernie Sanders combined…holey-moley! How does someone like that manage to advance through a such a career – it has to be they are surrounded by equally lunatic co-workers and bosses. When I was plodding along in the corporatocracy anybody nutty like this Walensky woman would be given the alternative of being a file clerk in East Jesus, North Dakota or resigning. Now it seems the goofier you are, the further you advance. This Swamp Creature with MD credentials is no different from the smelly, dirty whack jobs that assail you at stoplights, except this one probably wears good shoes and smells better.
So the China virus attacks minorities more than Whites. I bet nobody knew that a virus has a thinking, conscious mind and is Racist to boot. How much of this BS will we take? All of it as long as we stay home and don’t protest in the streets. All of it as long as Harris/Biden rule the country and Republican’s rubber stamp their appointments.
I wonder, if china is wondering “HMM. maybe we should have made a racially specific targeting virus”??
One more thing, I personally believe that one of the main reasons that leftists are making everything about race and constantly complaining that whites are racist is an effort to make it so. They are making white people angrier and provoking them with senseless accusations.
No one is going to provoke me into being what they want me to be. I’ve lived a lifetime with all kinds of people and I know there are good and bad in all races and at all economic stations in life. Those who say ‘all’ whites, ‘all’ browns, ‘all’ blacks, ‘all’ poor or ‘all’ rich should stop and think about whether that’s really true.
The only ones I see pushing racism and racially dividing this country ARE the radical democRATS … The nightmare in the white house is a racist… he racially divided our farmers with their FAKE Covid Relief Bill… The radical democRATS, the lying MSM, BLM, Antifa, the nightmare in the white house, the cancel culture lunatics ARE the enemies of this country… They are tearing apart this country.. their radical agenda is a huge threat to this country. The nightmare in the white house has destroyed the sovereignty of our country with his open borders and an invasion of thousands and thousands of illegal aliens EVERY Day… This nightmare of an administration and his radical democRATS are pushing this racism every day.. Math is racist, songs are racist, movies are racist, A child’s book author is racist.. etc… EVERYTHING to them is racist… it’s the democRATS pushing their hateful radical agenda in schools, teaching kids to hate their country.. and white kids to hate their race… GET THE EVIL DEMOCRATS OUT OF OFFICE AND SAME AMERICA… GOD HELP US ALL AS THEY DESTROY THIS COUNTRY MORE AND MORE
I wonder at what time they say GOD Is racist?
Liberalism is a disease (and a form of Mental Illness, as well)!
Dam those racist covid cells.
So now, as the truth starts seeping through the cracks in the propaganda wall and the general public is onto the COVID con game, we see they (the CDC) are desperately GRASPING at straws to find another bogeyman. They are running on fumes now.
THey may seem like they’re running on fumes.. BUT THEY STILL hold a lot of sway.
The CDC was wasting its time mucking about with social engineering before Covid hit instead of attending to its mandate so preparation for a pandemic everyone knew was inevitable after several harbingers (bird flu, HIN! swine flu, SARS I etc). was GROSSLY INADEQUATE. They didn’t even have sufficient stocks of protective gear for health care workers! And rather than fingering China for its reckless seeding of infected planeloads to every corner of the globe, the CDC declares fictional white racism vs blacks in America its idiotic focus.
That’s because the CDC should realistically be called the CHINA Cover up dept..
Here are few facts to consider. Fact, the democrat party has and still is the racist party, when you treat an entire race as if they are too stupid to take care of themselves, you are calling that race, stupid, that is racist. Fact, it was the democrat party that started the KKK, it was the democrat party that opposed equal rights and it is the democrat party who has been using blacks as pawns since the civil war, the sad part too many blacks are too dumb to see it. Fact, there is not another country in the world that offers more opportunities to blacks than the USA. Fact, one you have to consider, like it or not, IF your great grand daddy was not brought here from Africa to be a slave, entrapped and sold by OTHER BLACK TRIBES I might add, blacks today could very well still be living in a grass hut in Africa.
Who listens to the CDC ? They are a bunch of Demons from hello.
MANY politicians, especially mayors, unfortunately, listen to them.
Democrat Senator Byrd created racism he was a KKK leader, look it up, don’t listen to the liar Democrats , they try to hide that but it’s true !
The Hussein Administration Swamp is spreading and infecting EVERY aspect of our Government. Racially, our Country was in pretty good shape prior to the election of the most successful sleeper cell in radical Islamic history. Hussein spent his 8 years destroying our Republic while branding any criticism as Racist. He also planted individuals of his ilk into all the upper echelons of our Government to insure his War against our Country would continue. He incorporated a weapon more powerful than an atomic bomb to insure His agenda would survive and grow. EVERYTHING contrary to the destruction of The United States Of America was deemed RACIST!!
IT honestly seems that there’s NO ASPECT of government, that his ROT has not infested…
Just more harmful nonsense from a bloated bureaucracy. Time to trim them back to their pre-pandemic budget.
If all can do is look back ,then you will never move forward. The 13% with guns is the biggest threat to publish health. But the CDC will never Admit to that.