John Cummings has redeveloped an antebellum plantation in Louisiana where more than 350 slaves labored. Americans must ‘take responsibility’ for the wrongs of slavery, he says.
I don’t know how other people feel about this but I’m impressed that that a wealthy privileged white man built a museum with his own money to remember and honor enslaved black Americans and teach history of slavery and violence against black people.
NEVER FORGET.
Quoted from the article:
“I think the most powerful impression I had at my first visit to the Whitney Plantation was the way the museum forces you to enter the site in a way that does not foreground the large home where white enslavers lived,” says Laura Rosanne Adderley, associate professor of history at Tulane University in New Orleans.
“This is a memorial site, remembering the lives of people who suffered unspeakable horrors – and horrors still rarely spoken of regularly in the United States,” she says.
Cummings combines two major ingredients needed to run Whitney Plantation, says Ken Smith, an artist and retired plastic surgeon who has donated two statues to the site. “He is passionate about the subject, to tell the story of slavery in the United States that took place. And he has a lot of money.”
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Whitney Plantation has also drawn international visitors, including a party of more than 100 African mayors and 25 television crews from 15 countries including Germany, Britain, France, Peru, Chile, and Brazil.
At one time, Seck spent more than three hours giving a tour to a group of Chinese scholars, public officials, and businesspeople. “Some of the Chinese visitors became very emotional,” which surprised him, Seck says.
“I’ve seen people crying,” Cummings says. “I still cry.”
She pushed him back against the trunk of a tree and kissed him, full on the lips right there in the midst of the ragged column. Jon heard Grigg the Goat urging her on. Someone else laughed. He kissed her back despite all that. When they finally broke apart, Ygritte was flushed. “You’re mine,” she whispered. “Mine, as I’m yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first we’ll live.”
The bank bailouts, federalizing of the mortgage industry, and TARP (government purchasing of toxic financial assets) was ALL George W. Bush. Not to mention the Republican lust for deregulation. #RepublicanDementia
Neoliberalism’s time may already be up in 2016. It’s finished in the Republican Party, and Hillary Clinton is all that stands between the left egalitarians and control over the Democratic Party. The imminent collapse of the dominant economic ideology is not yet widely recognized. Right now, the affluent people who have benefited from neoliberalism are completely confused. They don’t understand why so many people, particularly young people, are flocking to candidates they consider totally insane. You can see this all around you on the internet and in the media–there are columnists, pundits, and TV personalities constantly acting incredulous that the public is not jumping up and down to vote for Clinton, Kasich, Bush, or Rubio. Michael Bloomberg is so confused and disturbed by the possibility that the public is about to pick someone who isn’t a neoliberal that he’s considering an independent run. Like most affluent people, he thinks the only reason the neoliberals are failing is that they are running ineffective campaigns. Bloomberg and the American neoliberal political establishment live in a bubble–they are insulated from the real-world consequences of stagnant median incomes. They don’t understand the extent to which the public, especially young people, have totally lost confidence in them to run this system effectively and fairly.
Why Bernie Sanders is More Electable Than People Think (via redcloud)
Weight discrimination in health care is dangerous for fat people
If you are fat and have even been abused or mistreated by a medical professional, know that you are not alone.
Fully 70% of fat people report that they have experienced prejudice or discrimination from a doctor or other health care provider.
This is one of the most dangerous forms of discrimination that fat people experience.
Fear of medical discrimination stops many fat people from seeking medical attention until it is an emergency, which may explain why fat people often fare worse when they contract certain diseases.
Prejudice and lack of training with fat patients causes doctors to offer inadequate medical care to fat patients. For example, fat patients are less likely to receive screening tests for certain cancers, and when they do get cancer, fat patients are routinely prescribed lower doses of chemotherapy than they require, resulting in lower cancer survival rates.
Many doctors even believe that non-emergency medical treatment should be denied to fat people until they lose weight.
Is it any wonder that fat people suffer poor health outcomes?
Doctors: We’re not going to treat fat people until they lose weight.
Fat People: *have health problems like everyone else that tend to get worse due entirely to lack of or inadequate treatment that leads to worse problems and an early death*
Doctors: SEE?! BEING FAT IS BAD FOR YOU AND MAKES HEALTH PROBLEMS WORSE AND KILLS PEOPLE!
Fat People: Um, no, MEDICAL NEGLECT DOES.
This is a good reminder that different forms of oppression intersect with fat phobia to determine people’s treatment by health care professionals.
For example, there is ample evidence that Black people experience medical neglect at higher rates and receive worse health care than white people (here is but one example). Women’s pain and illness is also taken less seriously than men’s pain and illness. When race-based medical bias and gender-based medical bias intersect with fat phobia, the results are truly appalling. As@peanut-budda-legs mentioned, fat Black women are particularly vulnerable to medical neglect and abuse.
Doctors are people first-and-foremost, and that means they are plagued by all the same implicit and explicit biases and prejudices that affect all of us. But this commonality does not excuse their biases. Rather, their position of social power and influence means that they need to work even harder to overcome their prejudices, because the negative consequences of those biases can be literally fatal.
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