Jimmy Carter: Time for Racial Discrimination is Over

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A final report will be issued in June to address longer-term/structural recommendations and plans to concentrate on health inequities among racial and ethnic populations.

MHSF Objectives:

• Stop the progression of the disease • Evaluate and document the impact of the disease • Remedy factors that contribute to the spread • Procure resources to prevent a resurgence

The MHSF four subcommittees and chairs:

• Education and Outreach – Charles Modlin, MD Cleveland Clinic, chair • Data and Research – Melba Moore, Ph.D, Cincinnati Health Commissioner, chair • Resources – June Taylor, Chief Performance and Strategy, Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging, chair PLAINS, Ga. — Former President Jimmy Carter released a statement Wednesday afternoon, addressing the recent killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. Carter said his and his wife Rosalynn’s hearts are with the victims’ families and “all who feel hopeless in the face of pervasive racial discrimination and outright cruelty.” Carter also looked back on his inaugural address as Georgia governor, echoing a message he made almost 50 years ago: “The time for racial discrimination is over.” • Healthcare – Charleta B. Tavares, CEO PrimaryOne Health, chair

PrimaryOne Health is working with our sister health, mental health and substance use disorder providers to raise awareness, offer services, educate, and partner to eliminate disparities, improve health outcomes and health equity among our patients, residents and African/Black and communities of color across Franklin, Montgomery, Pickaway Counties and throughout Ohio.

The COVID-19 Pandemic and the brutal death of George Floyd has unfortunately provided a pivotal point in time to not only focus on our safety and physical health but our emotional, mental and spiritual health. We must prioritize the marginalized and those who are suffering and bearing the burden of disease, illness and death. We cannot make the changes needed if we do not acknowledge that racism and injustice exists for African/Black and communities of color.

John Amis/AP Photo stand up and say “no more” to a racially

We are all in this – together. We (PrimaryOne Health) are One.

Footnotes:

1 Jay Starr – Black Lives Matter 2 Dr. Joy DeGruy https://www.joydegruy. com/post-traumatic-slave-syndrome 3 https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/static/MHSF/ COVID-19-Minority-Health-Strike-Force. pdfhttps://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/ gov/covid-19/healthcare-providers-andlocal-health-districts/Minority-HealthStrike-Force/Minority-Health-Strike-ForceReport

Charleta B. Tavares is the Chief Executive Officer at PrimaryOne Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) system providing comprehensive primary care, OBGYN, pediatric, vision, dental, behavioral health and specialty care at 10 locations in Central Ohio. The mission is to provide access to services that improve the health status of families including people experiencing financial, social, or cultural barriers to

JIMMY CARTER ON GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS “TIME FOR RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IS OVER”

Rosalynn and I are pained by the tragic diverse. The bonds of our common humanity racial injustices and consequent backlash must overcome the divisiveness of our fears across our nation in recent weeks. Our hearts and prejudices. are with the victims’ families and all who feel hopeless in the face of pervasive racial Since leaving the White House in 1981, discrimination and outright cruelty. We all Rosalynn and I have strived to advance must shine a spotlight on the immorality of human rights in countries around the world. racial discrimination. But violence, whether In this quest, we have seen that silence can spontaneous or consciously incited, is not a be as deadly as violence. People of power, solution. privilege, and moral conscience must health care. www.primaryonehealth.org.

As a white male of the South, I know all too discriminatory police and justice system, well the impact of segregation and injustice immoral economic disparities between to African Americans. As a politician, I felt whites and blacks, and government actions a responsibility to bring equity to my state that undermine our unified democracy. and our country. In my 1971 inaugural We are responsible for creating a world of address as Georgia’s governor, I said: “The peace and equality for ourselves and future time for racial discrimination is over.” With generations. We need a government as good great sorrow and disappointment, I repeat as its people, and we are better than this. those words today, nearly five decades later. Dehumanizing people debases us all; Carter’s statement comes a day after former humanity is beautifully and almost infinitely President George W. Bush said that he and his wife, Laura, were “anguished by the brutal suffocation of George Floyd.”

“It remains a shocking failure that many African Americans, especially young African American men, are harassed and threatened in their own country,” Bush wrote. “It is a strength when protesters, protected by responsible law enforcement, march for a better future. This tragedy — in a long series of similar tragedies — raises a long overdue question: How do we end systemic racism in our society?

Former President Barack Obama said that the death of Floyd “shouldn’t be ‘normal’ in 2020 America.” Obama also wrote a column on Medium and planned to address the country in a live stream.

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