In our first episode of the Hello Somebody COVID-19 Series, Senator Turner speaks with Dr. Gregory Carr, Associate Professor and Chair at Howard University’s Department of Afro-American Studies. With shocking clarity, we learn the irreversible truths behind why black folks -- in particular -- are more hesitant to get vaccinated. From Eugenics, to “snatching bodies,” to health policy based on anti-blackness, to even the Atlanta Child Murders, we begin to understand the cultural and historical PTSD black folks are experiencing in this time of being able to trust this government-led, yet necessary vaccination. Hello.Somebody!

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LINKS

Dr. Gregory Carr

https://www.drgregcarr.com/

https://gs.howard.edu/greg-carr

Fannie Lou Hamer (hysterectomy)

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedomsummer-hamer/

Dr. James Marion Sims

https://www.history.com/news/the-father-of-modern-gynecology-performed-shocking-experiments-on-slaves

2016 Study: “Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4843483/

 Atlanta Child Murders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_murders_of_1979%E2%80%931981

 Books:

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon

https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/douglas-blackmon

The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805039399

Those Bones Are Not My Child  by Toni Cade Bambara

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/8087/those-bones-are-not-my-child-by-toni-cade-bambara/9780679774082

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