Systemic Racism

A reporter asked me this question yesterday: “Why aren’t children getting tested for Lead?” Here’s my answer (comparison to COVID-19)

A reporter asked me this question yesterday: “Why aren’t children getting tested for Lead?” Here’s my answer (comparison to COVID-19)

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To the reporter who interviewed me for an article today: Your question was, “Why aren’t children getting tested (given the pervasiveness of Lead exposure)?” I gave you some short answers in our call — but here’s my longer answer. “Why aren’t children getting tested for Lead?”  Answer: If you don’t think your children are “at…

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

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

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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…

How the Lead industry deliberately utilized systemic racism to deflect blame for poisoning generations of children

How the Lead industry deliberately utilized systemic racism to deflect blame for poisoning generations of children

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Note: My husband and I have been working on writing this article for a few weeks now. We have done our best to present this information in a way that gives the reader historical context and demonstrates these issues as endemic in for-profit-industry over the past century and beyond. The opinions we have expressed here…