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Last week, together with 14 co-signatories, we published an open letter to the Stanton Foundation about the limited scope over their COVID-19 prize:
https://nursingclio.org/2020/06/12/an-open-letter-to-the-stanton-foundation/
https://nursingclio.org/2020/06/12/an-open-letter-to-the-stanton-foundation/
This week, the Stanton Foundation declined to award a prize, making this statement: http://thestantonfoundation.org/informed-citizens/covid-19-ah-prize
We at @nursingclio know that the history of racism and the history of health in America can not be separated, and wanted to use our platform to share some of the articles we saw last week that speak to these issues. We invite you to share more in replies.
"The compounded catastrophes—COVID-19 and police brutality—are health crises caused by social and environmental factors such as ... underemployment, housing insecurity, and inadequate access to healthcare," writes Antoine S. Johnson in @BlkPerspectives https://www.aaihs.org/from-hiv-aids-to-covid-19-black-vulnerability-and-medical-uncertainty/
"The carceral state is anticipatory violence masquerading as responsive force," writes Dan Berger for the Boston Review. https://bostonreview.net/race/dan-berger-jalil-muntaqim-carceral-state
"We must face our racial history and our racial present" wrote Michelle Alexander in the @nytimes . https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/opinion/george-floyd-protests-race.html?smid=tw-share
In the context of [a] pandemic that was already claiming a devastating proportion of Black peoples’ lives ... these current protests ... force us to look back ... [on how] “ongoing state-sanctioned legal & extralegal murders of Black people are normative” https://ageofrevolutions.com/2020/06/10/blm-2020-breathing-resistance-and-the-war-against-enslavement/
T.J. Tallie explained "it’s not a great leap to connect the current coronavirus pandemic to the extant history of white supremacy in the United States." https://nursingclio.org/2020/06/08/asymptomatic-lethality-cooper-covid-19-and-the-potential-for-black-death/
We encourage you to add to the list, helping us amplify these important voices and stories.
