The Gardener's Tale, Dr. Camara Jones

[@myhealthislife]

I got a chance to meet Dr Jone yesterday at Quincy Fl. Sharing her art in story telling. I enjoyed her talk about racism and understand the system of racism. If you don't know you can't act. Now that you know you must act.

[@johnfunches8153]

Great interview.

[@kusheran]

Thank you Dr. Jones and all the researchers for building the case for eliminating disparities. @PublicHealth is talking about population health in a *postcolonial* world, but specifically racism in the USA. We know that #BLM from the four webinars on health equity by #APHA. Just as during the Civil War and the Civil Rights era, our essential and basic struggle is about national values-- How much should we exploit lower class people (their health) in order fuel the economy (our wealth)? As Ruth Chang explained in her TED talk... This is another great opportunity to become who we want to be. We can now become a more perfect Union by recovering the wasted potential of all our citizens. But even beyond health disparities as a manifestation of institutional racism in the USA, North Americans as a population experience disparities relative to the UK and Nordic nations, because the USA was once a colony too. @MED_WorksBR

[@UAFAH]

Thank you for the Levels of Racism. It provides what is needed to explain how I picked up beliefs about race that did not empower me to develop and live at my potential.

[@aurora-cc6hk]

Amazing interview!

[@NyQuil012]

Great interview, but I have to point out something ironic that distracted me - the production for this video is an excellent example of unintentional institutionalized racism. I'm guessing whoever set up the lighting and keyed the video was white, or was taught by a white person. Using tungsten color temperature and what appeared to be amber gel in the lights is a huge no no when lighting dark skin for camera. You can kind of get away with it live, but on camera it made Dr. Jones look like a glowing banana. Not intentional, I'm sure, since it's not really taught - most lighting schools and texts deal with Caucasian skin tones. The other notable production faux pas was the costuming and the background - the interviewer's red coat and the red streak behind Dr. Jones all contribute to making it very difficult to color the cameras correctly. Combined with the lighting, this red caused the blooming and smudging you see on Dr. Jones' face and hands because the cameras needed to compensate. Again, I doubt this was done intentionally, just an example of how institutions (in this case, the video production) sometimes ignores skin tones that are not white.

[@juanmatos1859]

reaching

[@blessthepeeps]

Not reaching at all, I completely agree. Institutionalized racism is ingrained in almost -- if not everything -- all aspects of our lived experience. Even Kodak cameras and film were made for capturing white skin. Even how the 'color nude' is considered peach-toned by default (less so nowadays, but very prevalent before) is a facet of institutional racism. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

[@maryannpercy2879]

@@blessthepeeps indeed--plus those (white) "flesh-colored" bandaids! (I'm caucasian and so cognizant of this--even as a kid that crayon name bugged me!)

[@seanlorber9275]

Lies