Robert: But Really, #BlackLivesMatter

Patch ^ | July 8, 2016 | Tony Schinella

[2ndDivisionVet]

NH Public Health Association board president says validated research shows that white privilege and oppression manifests itself everywhere.

CONCORD, NH - #BlackLivesMatter. Yes, all lives matter, but really, #BlackLivesMatter. Because white Americans have not been subject to the institutional racism that was mixed into the mortar that holds together the bricks of our country’s foundation. Because being white means we have the luxury of avoiding long-term health effects of the toxic stress caused by institutional racism.

Submitted by Katie Robert for the New Hampshire Public Health Association.

By saying #AllLivesMatter, we diminish our neighbors of colors’ lived experience. This experience makes it necessary for parents of color to teach their sons not to wear hooded sweatshirts at night. Parents of color worry that their child may not receive the same medical treatment as the fair-skinned girl next to them in a waiting room. Concerns for their children are underpinned by their justified worries that their children they might not be able to get a job they are qualified for because of their skin color, natural hair texture, or accent....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Remember when that was a conservative state?

[King Moonracer]

Yes. But we’re only stuck with a few gibmedats.

[teeman8r]

what’s the difference between shinola and schinella... it’s all $#!+

[Don Corleone]

VOTE TRUMP

[Nifster]

Community activist...put money on her melanin deficiency

This is bafflegab and nonsense. Other than that it is just stupid

[kaehurowing]

#StopBlackViolence

[dsrtsage]

“Get an education, get a job, get safe housing”

Nobody forces black people to drop out of high school
Universities bend over backwards to admit black people

Every company I have ever had dealings with practically bend over backwards to hire black people. This does cause problems at the beginning as people are automatically suspicious that the person is a diversity hire which means everybody else has to pick up the slack, so the black person in that circumstance unfairly has to “prove” himself initially.

Safe housing is only not safe because of the presence of other black people. There are not roving bands of white racists causing mayhem on the streeets of black neighborhoods

[2ndDivisionVet]

Katie Robert, MPA, is a Project Manager with CHI/JSI. She provides project management and technical support to a variety of projects across the public health spectrum. Katie has been working directly and indirectly with NH child care programs to improve physical activity and nutrition policies in their settings. In addition, Katie works on a number of projects related to health communication and outreach plan development for a variety of state programs and privately-funded collaboratives. She received her Masters in Public Administration and her BA in Political Science from the University of New Hampshire. Her interests include policy development, health communications, and survey design and assessment. krobert@jsi.com (603) 573-3331

[marron]

Actually, character matters. And when your “leaders” won’t tell you that to your face, and you want tell it to yourself looking in the mirror, you are doomed generation after generation.

Thug culture kills these kids. And its waiting there for the next generation, and the next. And like their parents and grandparents, they’ll blame something and someone else, and it will not change except for the few individuals who look up and look inward and get out.

[Nifster]

Yes indeed ... melanin degicient

[smalltownslick]

NH - our neighbors of color?? Snicker snicker....

[ez]

I bet she has a super wide ass.

[publius911]

I bet she has a super wide ass.

I better not comment about that...

[Lopeover]

Marcus Luttrell said it best at the RNC Convention:

“In order for ANY life to matter, we all have to matter....understand?”