Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Get Up! Stand Up. Prophet Bob Marley in Munich (corrected)

i agree with gloria on most of her points.

the only areas i have knowledge and opinions about, that i know from living here in michigan, are detroit and suburbs, and of course mid michigan.

in detroit, there is no public transportation besides buses, and they are packed in. it isn't because of dense urban situations in detroit, but the opposite: an enormous space, where what was once a city of more than 2 million is now 700,000. detroit is 80% black, and gloria's descriptions account for much of the impact of the virus on local folk. i wouldn't say that most of the workers are health care workers, but people working minimal wage jobs or the like, and required to travel 30-60 minutes to get there.

perhaps an additional factor is a lifestyle where the government is relatively distant from people's lives.

where you have cities and poverty, in michigan, like flint, the outbreak is bad. we are in the rust belt, and even in lansing, it is the poor parts of town where the conditions gloria mentioned impact the people; could be black, hispanic, or poor whites, or refugees, of which we have many,

ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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Gloria Emeagwali <gloria.emeagwali@gmail.com>	8:21 AM (33 minutes ago)
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Well let me kill three birds with one stone, so to speak. First of all, to OA who has assumed rather  too confidently that marijuana causes schizophrenia.

But what if it is the other way around, namely, that some folks with schizophrenia use marijuana as a coping mechanism and a therapeutic device? 

Distinguishing the evangelical and secularist use of the term prophet is helpful. 

As for the disproportionate percentage of African American  deaths to Covid 19, mentioned by the poetic OKELLO OCULI, the following comes to mind, granted that it relates to a segment of the AA population, and not the whole:

1.  Lack of access to sound affordable medical care in normal times, and the dismantling of Obama's health care initiative.

2. Inherited dietary deficiencies  and practices - perpetuated by the fast food chains, low income, and decades of inattention to obesity generating foods.

3.  Excessive exposure to Covid-19 in nursing homes - and jobs as CNA  workers, hospital aides, 

delivery etc. - that are detrimental in the era  of Covid 19. High -paid medics and nurses are also at risk.

4. Crowded residential areas,  in densely populated  cities that preclude social distancing procedures.

5. A narcissistic President, slow to act in securing protective gear

for exposed individuals - believed to be outside loyalist voter -catchment zones.

6.  Blind faith, crowded churches -that initially defied social distancing measures. 

We  all  have to guard against the covert  eugenical use of Covid 19 by politicians - worldwide.

GE

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