A reader posted this comment on my earlier post about systemic racism: Knowledge is Neither Neutral Nor Apolitical (April 1971). It's brilliant.

I wanted to share the PDF from a document that a reader of my blog (who I have known for years via this advocacy community) posted as a comment on my earlier post about systemic racism in the role of perpetuating Lead poisoning.

This (read the full statement in the first image below) is brilliant and it is nice to see published agreement with the concept behind my post YET it is horrific that this “agreement” comes from a time when I was not quite 2 years old – and still nothing has been done to address this paradigm in nearly 50 years – a paradigm which persists in force to this day (solidly evidenced by the images from the January 2020 EPA materials posted in my original article from yesterday.)

Updated to add, note to “Leadnet” just now:

There have been a few comments on my post and two are notable. One is basically denying the existence of racism and the other – which I expect will be of interest to many of you if you are not already familiar with it – is an opening section for a published paper written by a brilliant researcher in 1971.

Her (nearly 50 year old) statement nicely summarizes (and fully supports) the considerations I brought up in my post – especially as it relates to the ineffectiveness of EPA, CDC, HUD, and state and local health departments, hospitals, etc. (when it comes to Lead) – due to the “blinders” of history, tradition and systemic racism hindering the actions of agencies from actually using new, current, relevant and progressive thought to effectively SOLVE the problem of childhood Lead poisoning.

I posted the comment separately here (with the original reference link):

From April of 1971
Knowledge is Neither Neutral Nor Apolitical
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry:
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Also excellent (as a glimpse into history, especially “historical” issues and perspectives that persist to day) is the article linked in the above block. Below is the excerpt introduction from that article (from 1979), “The Treadmill of Lead”: