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Colorado to Declare Racism a Public Health Crisis
Breitbart - Politics ^ | 7/31/2020 | Nate Church

Posted on 08/01/2020 8:08:32 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced at a “town hall” meeting on Thursday that it would declare racism a public health crisis.

Jill Hunsaker Ryan, executive director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, told the Denver Post that the agency will join the American Public Health Association in defining race and social inequalities as a broader health concern. She said the move is a response to a push from her staff to address the issue, saying, “I like it when my employees push me on this issue to go faster and to use language they think is more descriptive.”

The department had already published an open letter on its website calling the deaths of “George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Rayshard Brooks, and untold others” a symptom of “deeply-rooted systemic and institutional racism that has dehumanized and recklessly taken the lives of people of color for generations,” and labeling racism a “serious public health issue.”

Staffers, however, felt that the statement was too weak. There was internal concern that using the word “issue” versus “crisis” minimized the problem.

“I’ve just been kind of dumbfounded as someone who works for the agency,” said one employee, explaining they were “really underwhelmed with the stance that they’ve taken, and have been really appalled by the fact that CDPHE remains silent about systemic racism.”

“It’s just kind of a pattern internally of dragging our feet and not really addressing why we have’t done anything,” they continued.....

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
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You get that? CDPHE dragging their feet and "haven't done anything about systemic racism". Simply issuing a statement is not enough, the employees themselves want actions done and soon. The end point ===> If you are white, you are a public health concern, and part of a bigger public health crisis.

Unfortunately, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and Jill Hunsaker Ryan are not concerned at all about meida lies (or partial truth) about “George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Rayshard Brooks, and untold others”.

1 posted on 08/01/2020 8:08:32 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot
Racism is not a public health concern.

The exploitation of racism IS a public health concern.

2 posted on 08/01/2020 8:12:48 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Freedom Is In Peril! Defend it with your life.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Reading between the lines, it is declaring that whites are fair game for any assault or atrocity anyone “of color” may wish to visit upon them.

The left are batsh!t crazy. Cultural Marxism is alive and well in America, and political and economic Marxism are on the horizon.


3 posted on 08/01/2020 8:13:13 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: John Semmens

I got ready to read a semi-satire........then realized this is for real.


4 posted on 08/01/2020 8:13:39 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Aevery_Freeman

COLORADO IS A HEALTH CRISIS................WHAT A BUNCH OF LOONS...............


5 posted on 08/01/2020 8:14:15 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: Sir Napsalot

Go away Colorado you’re on Drugs


6 posted on 08/01/2020 8:15:23 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Sir Napsalot

Well, sure it is. And you know what is another public health crisis? It’s when people forget the meaning of even one letter in the nonsensical acronym LGBTQIA+.

I demand that Colorado - and every other state - form commissions to investigate this tragic matter.

Oops! I just called that acronym nonsensical. I’d better report myself to my state’s commission as soon as it forms.


7 posted on 08/01/2020 8:18:16 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Someone creating a hostile work environment. Some folks ‘feel’ threatened now. Come on, play the game.


8 posted on 08/01/2020 8:18:42 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Austin did it a few days ago. Colorado is slipping behind.


9 posted on 08/01/2020 8:18:50 AM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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it would declare racism a public health crisis.

What kind of mask is going to be required to ward that off?

10 posted on 08/01/2020 8:23:26 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

This is what happens when liberals leave a place that they have turned into a POS and move because they can’t stand what they have created. They then move to another place that used to be clean and nice bringing they crappy ideas with them and then get them implemented.


11 posted on 08/01/2020 8:23:27 AM PDT by Parmy
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To: Aevery_Freeman

We have no systemic racism in the US. Look at every segment of American society and you find successful blacks, and plenty of them. Turn on TV and blacks are heavily represented, ditto the entire entertainment industry, throughout the ranks of career government employees at every level, also the military, in industry they are well represented at every level including CEO’s, the business world, large population of blacks at every level of education, and on and on. This racism charge is an out-of-control lie.


12 posted on 08/01/2020 8:24:51 AM PDT by elpadre
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To: Sir Napsalot

Colorado governance is a public health hazard.


13 posted on 08/01/2020 8:26:57 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Prediction: G. Maxwell will surprise everyone by not dying anytime soon.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

We already know from the corona virus situation that if something is a public health crisis, the constitution is put on hold for the duration.


14 posted on 08/01/2020 8:28:17 AM PDT by Salman (if you can loot in person, you can vote in person.)
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To: ought-six

Only Trump pulled all of these wackos out of the woodwork—a woodwork that included Republicans, the MSM, and Deep Staters.


15 posted on 08/01/2020 8:30:17 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

So, if I say I’m a racist, can I get a disability check?


16 posted on 08/01/2020 8:30:22 AM PDT by abclily
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To: Salman

Correct!


17 posted on 08/01/2020 8:30:45 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

How did Colorado become such a leftist state?


18 posted on 08/01/2020 8:31:15 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: Sir Napsalot
White (systemic) “racism”. “Public health crisis”, my rear end.
19 posted on 08/01/2020 8:31:48 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: ConservativeMind

“Only Trump pulled all of these wackos out of the woodwork—a woodwork that included Republicans, the MSM, and Deep Staters.”

So very true.


20 posted on 08/01/2020 8:35:07 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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