RE: Race/Health - July 2003 - UPDATE

[Guest guest]

Having

followed the work of Professor Randall via her web page, I am happy to see the

references to her work posted for our benefit. Professor Randall has given meaning

to the Supreme Court’s dictum articulated in Brown v Topeka Board of Education

(1954) which I paraphrase as follows: Segregation and discrimination has harmed

the hearts and mind of people in a manner unlikely ever to be undone. This is

at the heart and soul of institutional racism that prevails not only for the

victims those who carry the scars of past practices and the daily wounds and

bruises of persisting discrimination. Equally insidious is the harm sustained by

modern day perpetrator of oppression who through blind righteousness sustain a

sense of superiority and white privilege.

Any

discussion about research about or within minority communities, migrant

populations included, is incomplete if Professor Randall’s work, or others who

have kept this critical and transcending but easily denied reality alive.

Respectfully,

Alfonso

Alfonso López-Vasquez, Director

Community Partnerships & Diversity

Assistant Professor

Pacific University

2043 College Way

Forest Grove, OR 97116

(503) 352-3104

(503) 352-2291 (fax)

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Race/Health - July 2003 - UPDATE