(Keep thinking: I’ve a Masters in Public Health; wrote my doctoral dissertation on global efforts to tackle AIDS pandemic; co-authored a book on global health governance; teach MPH courses on health systems & global health & I’m not qualified to lead a national #covid19 effort.)
We are growing our hospital and medical capacity:
▶️ 5 local LBC Hospitals preparing for surge.
▶️ 3 expanded Hospital tents at Memorial, St Marys & College Hospital.
▶️ 100 bed Hospital at Long Beach Convention Center.
▶️ Medical Clinic at @LBCityCollege for health & testing.
Little known fact: the current CNN breaking news headline “President Trump Postpones Denmark Trip After Prime Minster Refuses to Sell Greenland to United States”, was, word for word, in a 1995 episode of The Simpsons.
In addition to comprehensive gun reform legislation, we need to tackle the very existence of white supremacy in this nation. White nationalism is domestic terrorism and we cannot continue to let it claim the lives of innocent Americans any longer.
When our children ask us what we did when innocents were massacred, the president fomented racism, and immigrants were caged and cast as sub-human, what will we tell them? Each of us owns our individual response. And our collective response answers who we are as a country.
To the folks outraged at the academics + experts naming our concentration camp system what it is, what else do you call camps where parents die as their children watch?
Discomfort at the truth should spur us to change it. Denial prioritizes our comfort over people’s lives ⬇️
They said “send her back” but Speaker @SpeakerPelosi didn’t just make arrangements to send me back, she went back with me ✊🏽
So grateful for the honor to return to Mother Africa with the @TheBlackCaucus and commemorate The Year of Return!
#Doorofreturn#Ghana
I genuinely do not understand why anyone would go to all the trouble of running for president just to get up on this stage and talk about what’s not possible. #DemDebate
The death penalty is a heinous, totalitarian practice often used against innocent people.
It is the very definition of "cruel and unusual punishment."
It has no place in 21st century America, or anywhere else in the world. https://t.co/wg8F0XiwnH
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke. Standing idly by as the moral fiber of our country is shredded by unapologetic racism may seem politically expedient to some, but it is ruinous for our nation.