Prof. William Darity and Ms. Kirsten Mullen Discuss Their Recent Book, "From Here to Equality, Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century" (December 9th)
Prof. William Darity and Ms. Kirsten Mullen Discuss Their Recent Book, "From Here to Equality, Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century" (December 9th)
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Listen Now Listeners are aware social determinants significantly explain one's health, as much as 80%. Principally among these is economic status. Wealth positively correlates with health. As listeners are, or should be, well aware 250 fifty years of slavery and a century and a half of institutionalized racism has resulted in median black household net worth equal to one-tenth that of median white household net worth - due, in part, to blacks having comparative lower rates of upward mobility and higher rates of downward mobility. (Even white high school dropouts accumulate more wealth than Black college graduates.) This past October, after 208 years of publication, the prestigious The New England Journal of Medicine finally recognized the reparations issue by publishing a "Prospective" essay by Mary Bassett and her colleagues at the Harvard Center on Health and Human Rights titled, "Reparations as a Public Health Priority." The authors concluded, “It is left to those of us in medicine and public health to argue that now is the time to act," i.e., address reparations, because they stated further, “addressing the black-white wealth gap through reparations is about saving lives."
Prof. William Darity and Ms. Kirsten Mullen Discuss Their Recent Book, "From Here to Equality, Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century" (December 9th)
Prof. William Darity and Ms. Kirsten Mullen…
Prof. William Darity and Ms. Kirsten Mullen Discuss Their Recent Book, "From Here to Equality, Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century" (December 9th)
Listen Now Listeners are aware social determinants significantly explain one's health, as much as 80%. Principally among these is economic status. Wealth positively correlates with health. As listeners are, or should be, well aware 250 fifty years of slavery and a century and a half of institutionalized racism has resulted in median black household net worth equal to one-tenth that of median white household net worth - due, in part, to blacks having comparative lower rates of upward mobility and higher rates of downward mobility. (Even white high school dropouts accumulate more wealth than Black college graduates.) This past October, after 208 years of publication, the prestigious The New England Journal of Medicine finally recognized the reparations issue by publishing a "Prospective" essay by Mary Bassett and her colleagues at the Harvard Center on Health and Human Rights titled, "Reparations as a Public Health Priority." The authors concluded, “It is left to those of us in medicine and public health to argue that now is the time to act," i.e., address reparations, because they stated further, “addressing the black-white wealth gap through reparations is about saving lives."