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"black coalition against cove" Discussed on Trumpcast
"To a word with jason johnson. Today we're talking with dr toxin of the black coalition against cove. It as you mentioned from the start. The fight against it has been politicized and about half a million americans in the trump administration's watch. What are some policy changes from the white house that you suggest they should be implementing now to combat covert. What's the policy solution or the policy. Message that we should be getting now that we're not getting from the white house you know. This is a very intriguing question jason. Because i'm not so sure that there are a lot of policy issues. I think that what the federal government can do number one is it has to continue to push the values that every human life in america is respected and that when black people take to the streets in the by the tens of thousands screaming out as a primal scream my life matters my dignity matters unless those issues are dealt with then everything after that becomes a challenge. But that is the most important thing is to get us to a place where black lives matter to this government and to this country number two what they have to be able to do. I think they have done a good job ultimately of making sure that there is access to vaccines in our communities together. One of the things that they made a decision that i have to commend him for and something that i'm working in with the black michigan's. Covert much in partnership is using our community based infrastructures for not only our our church and faith and civic leaders but also our barber shops and beauty salons we are involved in a major initiative with them now where we are training barbershops owners and and salon beauticians to have the facts about this disease. Because we know how much time we spend at the shop. I think one of the things they need to do. A better job of from a policy point of view is to give more money and resources to black organizations to do the marketing and not have a filter through white organizations last year in twenty twenty when things were at some levels at their worst. I wrote a piece for the grio. And i did some back of the envelope. Calculations and pointed out that black people were dying of covert at the same rate that we were dying on the middle passage being brought from from the continent to the united states. And i remember getting a lot of feedback and people were like. Oh my god like when they saw those numbers when you saw the percentage is roughly the same here. We are almost a year later. From when i wrote that piece. What i'm hearing from. Some people is while i had cova tonight survive. So why do i need the vaccine. And then i hear some people say well look if i can still catch. Cova evening to get vaccinated. What's the point of getting vaccinated. What would you advise both me and those of us out there in the world who were hearing that from people. How do we talk to. The people who've already been sick who don't want to get vaccinated. How do we talk to the people who have become nihilist now. Who are saying. Well i don't see any pointing getting it. If i could still suffer through a breakthrough first and foremost we must approach this with an undying love for black people. Do you understand and undying love for black people and through that undying love for black people a love for all people. That's what's important. So that the middle passage example that you give we have been struggling for survival in america since the very first days and it has been a communal struggle it has been a struggle where each of us recognizes that we are part of a whole and that we have an obligation to each other to pull each other through to get us where we need to go the celebration of the black family against all odds but the celebration of the black community in support of the black family and support black individuals. Our churches our infrastructure our social organizations. All of them have been dedicated to issues larger than ourselves. And so when we have people who say i have a right not to wear a mask i have a right not to take a vaccine that may say i have a right to go into the club at night and party with all of my friends and so forth. I don't care what happens to you. Because i am all that matters. That is antipathetic jason to our entire history as a people in this country and so i think that we all have to start to appeal to each other. That says look. When did it ever get to the place where i was more important than we and i think this moral and ethical obligation that is grounded not only in morality and ethics but also in history is something we have to talk to people about so not only is the science there that says that we realized now that ninety nine point nine percent of all the people that are in hospitals today for covert infection are unvaccinated which ought to be all that anybody needs to know. I mean i you know those who are saying that they are fearful of getting a vaccine when tens of millions of in the united states and around the world have been getting it without untoward consequences. What are you waiting for. But if you don't do it for yourself why don't do it for your kids. Why don't we have our children be able to get back into school. These are the issues that are larger than ourselves. so put it in the context of the middle passage. I like that. And i think we have to continue to reinforce our sense that me is not as important as we leave us with some good news. What is as as as some of us are thinking of heading back to school as we head into the fall as we hear about the delta variant and some people have concerns. What is something optimistic that we can hang our hats on about this battle against cove in in the black community heading into the second half of twenty twenty one. I'll give you a quick one. I had a chance to the other day. Meet some of the descendants of the tuskegee. Syphilis study experiment and the families. I was so impressed that we were able to get a camera crew in a film crew to film them in a series of short documentaries. And i'll tell you what they all set to a person. We are all vaccinated and we do not want or do not enjoy in fact. We're quite upset. When people use the misery and pain of our ancestors of our fathers and our grandfathers and great grandfathers each of those cases those different generations represented in our conversation. We resent when people use that as a way to harm themselves. So i find myself very optimistic that there are people who have come through the struggle. The i met some of the people who were some of the men who were part of that study and it was a big celebration in honor of them years ago and i met them and they handed the microphone to one of them and this is what he said we forgive. Wow that is who we are. As people we are people who can forgive and their descendants can say to the black community with begging. You do the right thing we all are. I have such optimism because the dignity and the gravitas of these family members saying to people. We can turn a corner. We don't have to be stuck in the amber of our traditional fights with white america. this is beyond that. Let's move forward. And i think they give me reason for optimism. So i'm pretty jazzed up when i'm.
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"black coalition against cove" Discussed on Trumpcast
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Cova did you can have people who may be cova skeptics accessory etcetera but during aids crisis in the eighties. You had people saying well. This is just for gay people. This is just for immoral people. What was it like. What were some of the challenges that you face then you know. What's really kind of very sad is that it is almost exactly like it is today here. You have a disease that is spread in ways that people did not understand therefore there was a lot of mistrust about what it means to me and others the number one rate limiting step to try to talk to black community that i recall so well on every radio show that i did. It was always tuskegee. Tuskegee to ski. This is a plot by the white man to kill black people. It was made in a lab at the cia. I mean doesn't this. All sound very familiar is very frightening and then of course it was us against them me against you. I'm not going to do what i need to do to protect my sexual partner because it's all a plot and so often jason. I'd be on a phone call like this with you and and a person would call in and say well. This is a plot against black people developed by the white man in the cia and then i would ask brother. What do we do wearing a condom tonight with your lady and all of us is like well. I don't have to wear a condom. Because i can't get it and she can't get it because it's not even a real disease so these is almost exactly but this is outrageous part and i think it's something we're going to have to deal with. That was forty years ago. If tuskegee was the rate limiting step to try to talk to black folks about the importance of protecting not only themselves but their their partners and their community from that disease we have done nothing in forty years to take tuskegee off the table. How could that be re rate limiting step yet again. Shame on the american research enterprise. Shame on the american clinical care. Enterprise and shame on the american public policy. Enterprise that together our healthcare industry of which i am a member have done nothing in forty years to give black people the sense that the guidance and advice is being given to them out of out of love out of respect out of concern for their health as opposed to the distrust that we see rampant. Today when you have these interactions today whether it's a radio show in dc or online or whatever. What's the most common explanation that people have for why they haven't taken the vaccine here. We are eight nine months because a lot of people have. But if you're eight nine months in you have a reason why you haven't they ultimately comes down to over and over again. Anger distrust frustration and the vaccine or the mask wearing or any other guidance become proxies for a larger set of social phenomenon and until we sort of begin to understand that it really makes us having to battle these individual concerns. It's okay to have questions and that's one thing that we say over and over again. Jason is. It's okay to have questions but please don't get your answers from kooky because kooky on the internet doesn't know what they're talking about but it's okay to have questions but if you're not prepared to listen to the answers if you have no trust in what people who are scientific experts are saying then the conversation becomes very difficult because you're shadowboxing around. What the real concern is and the real concern. Is i do not trust anything that anybody is telling me and i simply believe that this is a plot to hurt me and therefore i am not going to cooperate. That's what we're hearing over and over again. Regardless of what the question is we're going to take a short break when we come back more on covert provincial measures in the black community. This is a word with jason johnson. Stay tuned there's something preventing you from achieving your goals. 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"black coalition against cove" Discussed on WTOP
"It's brought to you by long fence 20% off savings on fences, decks in papers, go to long fence dot com and schedule your free estimate today. 10 11. Now large segments of the black community across Maryland, D C and Virginia have embraced covert vaccines, but summer still on the fence about them, an effort to convince them involves breaking down. Barriers and boosting confidence in the medical establishment. Dr. Reid Toxin is co founder of the Black Coalition against Cove in 19, and says the latest in its syriza of virtual town hall meetings will duplicate the welcoming, relaxed atmosphere of barbershops and salons, where people typically feel good about getting trustworthy information that overcomes the misinformation that they have been receiving tux and said it's critical that health officials keep meeting people where they are, but with mask mandate. It's widely relaxed to be unvaccinated at this particular historical moment in this pandemic is a very, very dangerous thing to do, because now not even the masks are there to protect you. Kate Ryan w T o P News June is national cancer Survivor Month and a local prosecutor is hoping his story might help raise awareness. Every morning. You put your shaving cream on your neck and all this and I found a growth on the side of my left neck. It was 2015, says Montgomery County State's attorney John McCarthy. I couldn't imagine when I felt on top of the world that this was going to come. He's had six surgeries, including a lung removed 36 radiations and around a Chema exercise being active being served. Ended by friends being encouraged by people and have a great doctors is what got me through it, McCarthy says. There are enormous recuperate of abilities of the body Every day you survive brings you closer to the cure Me. A log didn't stain wtl P news. June is Pride Month and the Capital Pride Alliance held virtual discussion with members of the area's LGBT Q. Community toe. Look ahead. That's my job now to give support to women like myself. That's Alexis Blackman to make sure that no obstacle it's too big that they'll be able to do anything that they actually put their minds. She's director of government and public affairs for Casa Ruby, a 24 7 Community Center for LGBT Youth in D. C internally living in misery. Up until I was 15 years old. That's when she decided to come out. Now Blackman is helping today's youth and his hopeful for tomorrow say a decade from now we're gonna see some politicians, some trans people who are actually running in an acting changed in this city that small w t o P News 10 14 Why haven't you refinanced your mortgage? Seriously, Why are you waiting? Mortgage rates are near all time lows. That's right. All time lows. Why pay more interest on your mortgage when.
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"black coalition against cove" Discussed on WTOP
"For for a little while. Good evening. I'm Jenny Glick. Well, we're learning more about a man killed yesterday in a shooting involving a sheriff's deputy Montgomery County Police say 52 year old Kevin Costello was driving erratically on Route one awaits Saturday morning. They say cost low, forced the driver off the road and drove on the wrong side before he crashed into another car. Police say cost low came out of his vehicle, swinging a piece of wood and hit a Montgomery County sheriff's deputy That Deputy tried using his stun gun to subdue cost low before shooting him. Montgomery County Police have not identified the deputy who fired the shot but are still investigating the fatal shooting occasion. James W. T. O p News Lots of you trying to tell us that getting a vaccine has been an exercise in frustrated in Take a 65 year old Fort Washington woman Her husband is 75 about to undergo chemotherapy. Vicky Burn, Ham tells w t O p. She's on top of information like how to get an appointment. I checked everything that I can in terms of PG County, and then it's health care. The University of Maryland met Star Safeway giant six lads, but actually getting a time slot is another story has had a look into finding the sun. Her latest attempt trying to get a slot at Adventist Hospital in Port Washington. She and her husband went online picked appointment times filled out their information. We may not be the fastest, but we're pretty computer savvy here. By the time they were done, the slot was gone. I assume once I got an appointment signs that I had an appointment, but that is not the case, so they kept trying, and for each of us three times it came back saying that there were you know the appointment wasn't available. Burn him has a suggestion to help limit Some of the frustration if it turns out that that slot you applied for wasn't available. Why doesn't it show you the next available slot that you can then just apply for and get it, as opposed to having two recent it and redo the whole thing? She hopes something changes because it's been awful, and I think the state could have done better, but it's a mess. Let's Anderson w. T. O P. News, DC's mayor and the state superintendent of education, are announcing that going forward vaccination appointments will open every Monday and at noon. And seven for in person child care workers in D C teachers. Those appointments will be made through the one medical portal, which should be accessible through an email sent to eligible workers. To date. One medical has already vaccinated two thighs. 2000 child, Karen school staffers, D. C. Health and also announcing the launch of a pilot initiative with DC Is Faith community Provide the cove in 19 vaccine eligible residents. The through the faith in Vaccine Initiative, D. C health, working with Black Coalition against Cove it to spread the word about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine. This week, the Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church will support that launch by hosting two vaccine clinics. Well, you may seen them everywhere, but homelessness is becoming more common nowadays in Maryland They're trying to do something about it. Time for Holmes is a nonprofit focused on ending homelessness by 2035 in Maryland. Back in October, the Fair Housing Action Center reported a drastic increase in clients time for homes is now focused on a restorative response to those most impacted. Dr. Morrow Shift is a professor of criminology at Florida Atlantic University, tend to label things as justice problems simply because that's the narrative we use, but it's not necessarily the most effective and I would argue that that's particularly true around those eggs. Period, saying homelessness director James Ryan. The impact we can have is by bringing together these different partner organizations data from a variety of sources to really be able to have an evidence informed policy. Melissa Howell WTF peonies. It's six of seven This is.
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"black coalition against cove" Discussed on KZSC 88.1 FM Santa Cruz
"She's professor of anthropology, risk and decision science at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She says that people have four fundamental questions when it comes to getting shot. Found was four domains, confidence in the importance and the effectiveness in the safety and is a compatible with my it least. Religious or otherwise. Interestingly, you really look globally the data on comparing it to actual vaccine uptake perception of the importance of the vaccine is actually the strongest predictor of vaccine acceptance. Dr Larson says the populations that are most vulnerable to covet exposure or serious outcomes for the disease, including native latter necks and black people, and people with low incomes are also the most likely to experience vaccine hesitancy. Most widely held concern across the population is about the safety of this shot and its potential side effects thing. Same time. If people believe in the importance of the vaccine, they're much more willing to tolerate a bit of risk. Dr Reid Tucks in is a member of the Clinical Center Research board at the National Institutes of Health and the founder of the Black Coalition against Cove. It It's a group of community organizations and health care professionals who came to build trust for the vaccine among black and brown communities and inform people about the risks of catching and spreading cove in He said that the disease of distrust can be deadly. We have to realize that there is a larger context that has to be addressed distrust of health care researchers distrust of the system of clinical care and distrust of the health policy movement. Ah, lot of that was because of the Tuskegee syphilis study of which are everyone, I'm sure is well aware of the horrors of that experience, but those remained prominent and frustrated our ability To respond from a public health perspective to the HIV AIDS crisis in the black community is Number one. We must have grassroots community engagement. If we're going to fight these kinds of challenges, Government cannot do it alone at the federal, state or local level. It must be community based organizations, people from the community who can translate and transmit Science messages in their own vernacular in ways that can reach and cut cut through. Secondly, you must have trusted science and clinical care voices. There is a huge desire for the black community to hear from trusted voices trusted black positions, and scientists and funding is a very big part of it. Unfortunately, what we see too often is major white philanthropies and other organizations with which Government already has a pre existing funding mechanism. They get the dollars and what happens is that the African American community has been taxed with doing the work we do, but having to do it with very little resource is and people sort of taking those community based organizations for granted. Jackson says organizing efforts have begun to make headway and raising people's confidence in the vaccines. But, he says once people do decide to get vaccinated. Systemic inequality in the health care system leaves low income and communities of color, waiting the longest for their shot. Our polling tells us that we've gone from a couple of months ago. Where was 60%? No, I will not take the vaccine to now. Our polling is telling the status down to 30%. The 70% are saying I need more information and I'm ready to go. Black folks are not in the back teen hesitant issue the way that we thought we would be anymore. So it is not an excuse. But it is hard to get black folks to come take the vaccine, and this is a referendum on America's competence to execute on a very fundamental problem. I'm Jr Summers for KPFK. And you're listening to the evening news on K p F a Berkeley or KPFK in Los Angeles, KFC F Fresno Online at kpfk dot or G'kar thistles CAT Brooks I'm an actor,.