A recent incident typifies the problem. Wealthy donors raised money for a cause that could benefit themselves while hurting and harassing those who actually sought to change the landscape towards justice:
http://www.popularresistance.org/traumacenternow-activists-disrupt-luxury-uofc-fundraiser/
The message of academic medical centers that invest in huge research towers to capture grant money from NIH and the pharm industry while nearby populations get hurled into a population health status worse than that of sub-saharan Africa is clear...wealthy white America does not care about black or brown life. I'll write it again, because this is the very core of the issue: wealthy white America does not care about black or brown life, in any positive way.
If anything, wealthy white America is doing it's best to quietly prematurely erase black and brown lives; and this is no hyperbole. The kind of reproductive health pushed on low income black areas in combination of the lack of care about nearly anything else is literally eugenic.
Perhaps it is best if wealthy white Americans concern themselves fully with climate change...if it means they will start at least leaving us alone.
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