Oregon Health Officials Delayed a Meeting Because ‘Urgency Is a White Supremacy Value’

In an email obtained by Reason, Regional Health Equity Coalition Program Manager Danielle Droppers informed the community that a scheduled conversation between OHA officials and relevant members of the public would not take place as planned.

“Thank you for your interest in attending the community conversation between Regional Health Equity Coalitions (RHECs) and Community Advisory Councils (CACs) to discuss the Community Investment Collaboratives (CICs),” wrote Droppers. “We recognize that urgency is a white supremacy value that can get in the way of more intentional and thoughtful work, and we want to attend to this dynamic. Therefore, we will reach out at a later date to reschedule.”

Original: https://reason.com/2022/07/02/urgency-is-a-white-supremacy-value-oregon-health-authority

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“White People Do Not Exist”

This is a common trope, that “Whiteness” is a construct, that there is no such thing as a White person. However, “White privilege” is defined as all the ways society gives preferential treatment to… White people, who do not exist. It’s just more semantic sorcery meant to denigrate White people. If you’re a fair-skinned person of European ancestry, you don’t (or shouldn’t) exist.

Proponents of this idea never claim that Black people do not exist. The various pro-Black political and cultural movements (#BlackLivesMatter, DEI committees, Critical Race Theory, the Black National Anthem, BET Black Entertainment Television, Juneteenth, and so on) depend on the existence of Black people and their self-identification as Black people. Since “White people do not exist,” neither can any political or cultural movements that advance their interests.

Why is the history of punk music so white?

There’s no denying that the UK punk scene was, in part, driven by the anger and isolation felt by the white working class. But punk music is not the sole property of whiteness, even though to people of my generation it may appear that way at first glance.

Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

Original: https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/28372/1/why-is-the-history-of-punk-music-so-white

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They want you to die.

At some point in your life as a White person, you have to acknowledge that there are people across the planet who despise you because you’re White. They want you to feel guilty, they want you to hate yourself, they want you to ignore and deny your heritage, and they want you to stop existing.

Original: https://www.salon.com/2015/12/22/white_men_must_be_stopped_the_very_future_of_the_planet_depends_on_it_partner/

Archive: https://tinyurl.com/2p8vmeum

“We’ll just get rid of all the Whites in the United States”

 “So I have the solution. Every study published in the last five years, when you look at vaccine refusers. I’m not talking about…hesitance, most of them we can talk into coming to terms. But refusers. We’ll just get rid of all the whites in the United States… Guess who wants to get vaccinated the most? Immigrants.”

Carol J. Baker, M.D. was appointed to serve as Chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, in 2009.