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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:58:25 -0700
From: Brian Griffith <sohealthy@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Resources
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EnviroHealth Connections (http://www.thinkport.org/CLASSROOM/CONNECTIONS/default.tp)provides FREE web-based resources that help students explore the significantrelationship between the environment and human health. These materials bring relevanceand imagination into the classroom through interactive investigations, expertpresentations and comprehensive lesson plans on topics such as asthma and airpollution, mercury in the food chain, environmental justice and many more.
The standards-based resources were developed through a partnership between Maryland Public Television and the Center in Urban Environmental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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#329
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:00:36 -0700
From: William Cissell <cissellguill@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Mark's Posting on Race and Disparities
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Mark,
Thanks for posting the web sites on race and disparities. The speech by Sen Obama is particularly moving and inciteful.
As a son of redneck sharecropers in Western Kentucky, I learned that one drop of African blood was very powerful. Yes, my family, neighbors and church members were racists. They believed, as several states required by law (I believe Louisiana only recently recinded its law.), anyone with African ancestry must be identified as Negro and be treated differently than other citizens. "Separate but equal" meant separate and completely unequal. My racist, redneck relatives, neighbors and church members had a heavy investment in segregation and bigotry toward African Americans. It meant that, even though we were very low on the socioecnomic scale, there was someone below us. It was people like these who led the Klan activities in opposition to the freedon rides and marches. It took me several decades to divest myself of much of the bigoty (I would like to think all of it.) I was taught as a child.
While I prefer Senator Clinton as a nominee for the role of president, I greatly admire and respect Senator Obama. He articulated the issues of race affecting his situation extremely well.
Senator Obama is considered the first African American man with a serious chance to be nominated for the presidency. Yet, he has as much, or more, non-African American ancestry than African American ancestry. African Americans are giving him heavy support. So are most white men. Does gender trump race for white men in this political atmosphere? Are white men supporting a man with some African American ancestry because they prefer a man to a woman? I suspect the reality is more complex than this.
I had the good fortune to work for Jackson State University, a historically Black college/university, in 2001-2002. While there, I got the opportunity to work in a grant project aimed at eliminating disparities between the health care services frequently received by African Americans and others in Mississippi. It was eye-opening to learn in greater detail the extreme differences between the African American experience with health care professionals and institutions and that of non-African Americans, even the economically and educationally disadvantaged whites. Some undocumented workers were receiving even better health care than many of the African Americans in Mississippi and, I believe, in many other states.
Bill cissell
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