Sherrod Brown Wants to Declare Racism a ‘Public Health Crisis’
12th March 2024
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio) wants to declare racism a “public health crisis,” the symptoms of which include “microaggressions” and the “forms of violence” that black Americans face when “jogging in neighborhoods.”
Brown on Monday introduced “a resolution declaring racism a public health crisis,” which calls for “a nationwide strategy to address health disparities and inequities across all sectors in society.” The resolution does not offer strategies for “dismantling systemic practices and policies that perpetuate racism” but does call for “governments to engage significant resources to empower the communities that are impacted.”
It’s a potentially risky resolution for Brown, one of the Senate’s staunchest progressives, who faces a tough reelection bid in a state that swung for former president Donald Trump by more than 7 points in 2020. Brown, who votes with President Joe Biden 98 percent of the time, has attempted to position himself as a defender of blue-collar workers.
The greatest threat to the health of black people is a black teenage gang-banger is a gun. I don’t see any mention of it in the Senator’s plans.