Rowell-Cunsolo Tawandra L, Bellerose Meghan, Haile Rahwa
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Social Work, 1350 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706.
Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032.
Int J Soc Welf. 2022 Oct;31(4):520-528. doi: 10.1111/ijsw.12547. Epub 2022 Jun 29.
On February 26, 2012, a Black child, Trayvon Martin, was executed in Sanford, Florida. Seventeen months later his killer was found not guilty. This is but one example of the state's brazen disregard for Black life, rooted in the kidnapping and enslavement of Africans more than 400 years ago, and the ways in which they and their descendants were systematically tortured. Trayvon Martin's murder catalyzed the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, which names and resists deeply entrenched state violence and inequities against Black people in the U.S. In this manuscript we: (1) summarize examples of structural disregard for Black lives in the U.S.; (2) describe how this disregard is reflected in differential patterns of social inequities, morbidity, and mortality; and (3) discuss how we can better employ the BLM perspective to frame a more historicized understanding of patterns in population health and to envision ways to resist health inequities.
2012年2月26日，黑人少年特雷沃恩·马丁在佛罗里达州桑福德市被处决。17个月后，杀害他的凶手被裁定无罪。这只是该州公然漠视黑人生命的一个例子，这种漠视源于400多年前对非洲人的绑架和奴役，以及对他们及其后代有系统的折磨方式。特雷沃恩·马丁被谋杀催生了“黑人的命也是命”（BLM）运动，该运动指出并抵制美国境内针对黑人的根深蒂固的国家暴力和不平等。在本手稿中，我们：（1）总结美国对黑人生命结构性漠视的例子；（2）描述这种漠视如何反映在社会不平等、发病率和死亡率的差异模式中；（3）讨论我们如何能更好地运用“黑人的命也是命”的观点，来构建对人口健康模式更具历史感的理解，并设想抵制健康不平等的方法。
