Transcript of My Talk to Academic Public Health Volunteer Corps Team Leads - July 24, 2020
I'm just gonna focus on on the School of Public Health. My--BUSPH because that's ... T hat's my home. That's where I work. And you know, that's where I do, everything I do is out of BUSPH. So in response to the recent police shootings that have gotten, you know, tremendous media attention and notice I say recent because it's not that there's just this problem; it didn't begin in 2020. It's just that it's getting more media attention, but at any rate because of this media attention, you know, this school has taken some actions. So we've had some discussion forums, we've had in our department, you know, we're, doing self reflection or something like that. And, um, we might have a retreat to talk about this. And, you know, and that's all great. I'm not, I'm not saying that that's a bad thing. But, but it is a bad thing if it distracts our minds away from racist policies that we're instituting at the very same t...