{"id":246203,"date":"2021-03-18T10:30:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T14:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=246203"},"modified":"2021-03-18T10:30:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T14:30:48","slug":"whiteness-is-a-public-health-crisis-the-root-nyt-opinion-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whiteness-is-a-public-health-crisis-the-root-nyt-opinion-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Whiteness Is A Public Health Crisis\u2019: The Root, NYT Opinion Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhiteness-is-a-public-health-crisis-the-root-nyt-opinion-writer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=246203&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1774.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Wednesday, responding to the murders in Atlanta of eight people, six of whom were Asian, a writer for The Root who also is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/verysmartbrothas.theroot.com\/whiteness-is-a-pandemic-1846494770?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=SocialMarketing&amp;utm_campaign=dlvrit&amp;utm_content=theroot\">asserted<\/a> that \u201cwhiteness is a public health crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Damon Young opined, \u201cIt shortens life expectancies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills people\u2014white people and people who are not white,&nbsp;my mom included. There will be people who die, in 2050, because of white supremacy-induced decisions from 1850.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Opining&nbsp;that the murders should be tied to \u201cthe relentless anti-Asian rhetoric pollinating national discourse over the past year,\u201d Young posited that former President Trump, as well as the Republican Party, \u201ccan and should be blamed for this and the sudden increase of racist violence against Asian Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Young didn\u2019t stop there; he inveighed against whites in America for the last 400 years, arguing, \u201cThe line&nbsp;doesn\u2019t stop there, though. It extends back 400 years&nbsp;and has tentacles clawing everywhere white supremacy exists here, in America, which is everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After surmising that there was a \u201cline connecting this act of terror to the 11 people killed at the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, and the nine people killed at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015, of course,\u201d Young then segued to his argument that the murders could be tied to \u201cgentrification, to red-lining, to racial profiling, to gerrymandering, to voter oppression, to mass incarceration, to the war on drugs, to the subprime mortgage crisis, to the vast disparities in both COVID deaths and who receives COVID vaccinations, to how the men and women who stormed the capitol just went home and had dinner with their families afterward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cWhite supremacy is a virus that, like other viruses, will not die until there are no bodies left for it to infect. Which means the only way to stop it is to locate it, isolate it, extract it, and kill it. I guess a vaccine could work, too. But we\u2019ve had 400 years to develop one, so I won\u2019t hold my breath.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last October, Young penned an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/a34315507\/racism-public-health-crisis-black-women-pittsburgh\/\">Esquire<\/a> in which he blamed white society for the death of his mother, who died of lung cancer. He wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\">\n<p><em>When she was a terminal cancer patient, that status was her primary identity when receiving care, superseding race, gender, and class. She was considered vulnerable. Defenseless. Worthy. Of protection. Of pain relief. Of treatment. Of effort. But when she was just another Black woman, she was&nbsp;just another Black woman&nbsp;and treated as such. Of course, I have no hard proof of this.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Young quoted a report from Pittsburgh\u2019s Gender Equity Commission saying the city was \u201carguably the most unlivable\u201d city in the country for black women. He wrote, \u201cThere are few better places on earth to be sick than in Pittsburgh. And few worse places in the country to be sick if you\u2019re a Black woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Young opined that the reason Pittsburgh is \u201cso livable for white people and so unlivable for Black men and Black teens and Black children and Black babies and, specifically, Black women\u201d was that Pittsburgh \u201cused eminent domain to displace hundreds of businesses and thousands of residents from the predominantly Black Lower Hill District\u201d in the mid-1950s and that \u201cPittsburgh is a city in the same America that owes its vastness, power, and wealth to its plundering of Native people and its centuries of free labor from enslaved Africans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Young asserted, \u201cI know why Vivienne Leigh Young died. She existed in the least livable body in America\u2019s most livable city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, responding to the murders in Atlanta of eight people, six of whom were Asian, a writer for The Root who also is a contributing opinion writer for The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310734,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1774.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Whiteness Is A Public Health Crisis\u2019: The Root, NYT Opinion Writer","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1774.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Whiteness Is A Public Health Crisis\u2019: The Root, NYT Opinion Writer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}