Louisville, Ky., Mayor Greg Fischer signed an executive order Tuesday declaring racism a public health crisis.
In remarks on Tuesday, Fischer declared 2020 has been a year like no other” citing challenges facing the city such as COVID-19, economic downturn, increase in gun violence and protests calling for racial justice some sparked by the police killing of Breonna Taylor, which he said made the city “a focal point for America’s reckoning on racial justice.”
“For too many Lousivillians, racism is a fact of daily life, a fact that was created and documented in our country’s laws and institutional policies like segregation, redlining and urban renewal,” he said.
The executive order outlines seven key areas for the city’s government to address racial equity challenges including public safety, children and families, Black employment, Black wealth, housing and neighborhood investment, health, and voting.
“These reforms will require a strong commitment and a lot of work,” Fischer said. “But I believe it can be done — in part because when I look around Lousiville and talk to people from every neighborhood and background, I sense a greater and broader understanding and desire to address racial equity than ever before.”
More than 145 cities and counties throughout the United States have previously declared racism a public health issue, according to the American Public Health Association.
Multiple public health studies cited in a June article by Pew Research Center detailed the health effects of racism, including data showing that Black women are four times more likely to die of pregnancy-related complications than White women, Black men are twice as likely to be killed by police as White men and the average life expectancy for Black people in the United States is four years lower than the rest of the national population.
Fischer noted that in Louisville the Black poverty rate is nearly three times the White poverty rate, Black residents make up 22.4% of the population but own 2.4% of businesses, half as many Black residents own homes as White residents, Black graduates earn nearly $10,000 less than White graduates and life expectancy can vary by as much as 12 years between majority-Black and majority-White neighborhoods.
“All of these and a million other statistics and real-life experiences tell us that our systems are more than broken — they must be dismantled and replaced,” he said.
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What a buthead… so… what’s he gonna’ do… lockdown city so different cultures can’t see each other. What kind of moron and in what dimension would someone vote for this jackass?
“life expectancy can vary by as much as 12 years between majority-Black and majority-White neighborhoods.”
“Judge not by the color of one”s skin, but by the contents of their character”
I.A.W. U.S. Census & FBI (Table 43a) Black males make up about 8% of the U.S. population but commit 53% of all the murders and 55% of all robberies in the U.S… Every year there are ~6,000 African-Americans men, women and children killed and 94% of them were killed by fellow Black African-Americans.
“Black people make up 23 percent of New York’s population, but they commit 75 percent of all shootings. …
Whites are 33 percent of the city’s population, but they commit fewer than 2 percent of all shootings…
Blacks do not have problems because of their race. They have problems because of their character and behavior.
Any race would have the same problems if they had the same character values and behaved the same.
I personally know Black people who do not work and have lived off of the taxpayers for three generations.
I also know some Black people who are a lot more intelligent than I am, obey God and are much wealthier than I am.
It is NOT the color of one’s skin. It is their character and life choices that determines where one fits into the world.
The college indoctrinated brainless rats, that’s who!
Good answer… don’t forget the dumbass parents that paid for the “higher (fatty) education”.
True, the MORONIC PARENTS who keep paying, to send their over-entitled brats, to these indoctrination centers, DO SHARE a lot of the blame.
Fischer is a full blown loon! But, he can be credited as a “good little democrap” by parroting their stale line blaming everything on racism….even where there is none!
Well if the mayor is talking about the professional black racists in Burn Loot and Murder then he has a very valid point.
Liberalism is a public health crisis.
ITS A plague on the entire human race.
qualifies as a pandemic … more so than the CHINA virus.
It isn’t racism that causes people to make poor behavior choices that lead to their poor health. In fact, it’s more racist to say that people of a certain race are helpless to take care of themselves properly.
Good grief. Save us from these people.
Hurry, hurry hurry, we need to develop a vaccine to stem this immediately!
Unfortunately, there is NO vaccine against liberalism, communism, marxism or socialism..
Well… we could mandate everyone has to wear earplugs and blinders along with the masks… after all it’s a liberal pandemic.
obama is the cause of RACISM being a public health crisis in the USA! When the blm thugs were parading with KILL COPS NOW and FRY PIGS LIKE BACON banners, a handful of police officers were gunned down in Dallas. obama did NOT call blm out, but welcomed them into our Whitehouse.
Every time i am reminded of that, i wanna pull out ID4 or other alien invasion films, and WATCH THEN BLOW THE WHITE HOUSE UP, and day dream obama is still in it, when it happens!
By his logic, breathing is a public health crisis.
logic? surely you jest
“….a fact that was created and documented in our country’s laws and institutional policies like segregation, redlining and urban renewal,” he said.”
That’s got southern Democrats covered. We used to laugh at those inbred rednecks. Now their attitude is the peak of progressiveness.
So he signed an executive order declaring racism a public health crisis. Now what?
Problem solved. It’s Miller Time! Break out that “Mission Accomplished” banner that Bush used.
Sorry, bars and liquor stores are shut down. SO you’ll have to make do with tap water..
L.O.L. funny you said that Ituser… I’ve been making my own beer since Feb…I’m in the process of making a still.
So this moron is declaring only one side of racism against blacks specifically, but what about victims of racism caused by blacks? Do other races have any rights when racism is waged against them or does this only apply to blacks. Sounds like Black privilege to me.
ITS the ultimate privilege. THEY CAN DO what ever they want to any other race, and its NEVER seen as racist.. BUT NO ONE can ever do anything TO blacks, lest it always be seen as racist…
So is this meaningless platitude supposed to keep Tyrone, Rufus and Janelle from rioting, looting and burning?
WHITE GUILT run amok!
Quote from above article states: Black men are twice as likely to be killed by police as White men.
They are also more than twice as likely to resist arrest and attack the police resulting in a bad situation they themselves caused.
Typical blathering leftist, segregation, a democrat thing, black unemployment, lowest in history, a Trump thing, housing and neighborhood investment, a Trump thing, section 8 housing, keep um down on the plantation, a democrat thing, black wealth and opportunity, a Trump thing, voting, more blacks than ever voting republican, a Trump thing. Well you get the idea, another blathering leftist trying to blow smoke up your backside.
Typical gaslighting. Make you believe such a big lie that you begin to doubt your own senses. You KNOW it is not true but can’t believe someone would wantonly lie about it. Understand they don’t believe in the same moral code as you, they don’t have a moral code, they have no integrity, they are dishonest, they are unethical. They will lie without blinking an eye. They want to believe what they have said.
Yeah, it’s all about racism, isn’t it, but not about corrupt Democrat mismanagement, right?
People are generally stupid, greedy, lazy, slovenly, irresponsible, apathetic, uncurious cowardly passive-aggressive bullies and if you’re a bipedal, hairless, hominid member of the human RACE, I probably don’t like you, so that makes me a racist. Live with it or don’t.
In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny: “What a maroon”!
Another day, another idiot speaks.
These days, it seems our ENTIRE roster of elected officials, are nothing more than grade A morons.
“The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can’t get and to promise to give it to them.”
–American writer H.L. Mencken
“The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
— H. L. Mencken, Baltimore Evening Sun on 26 July 1920, in an article entitled “Bayard vs. Lionheart” (and reprinted in the book On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe)
“You don’t have to pass an IQ test to be in the senate.”
–Former Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas)
New headline: Retired accountant says leftist mayor is out of his mind.