Patients/community members discuss race and racism and social determinants of health. (2023)
And also things like gentrification. We’re tearing down or sometimes there’s nothing there. And they’ll put something expensive like a Whole Foods or a Harris’s Teeter in its place instead of something that maybe somebody needs. Like, oh, I don’t know what it was before, but it’s somewhere in southeast DC. It was something, they tore it down and they turned it into an Aldi’s and I’m like, an Aldi’s? But it was something that was essential. It was like, I think it might’ve been a Safeway or something. Something that was cheaper and they turned it into something more expensive. So gentrification also plays a lot in the systematic oppression. They’re trying to push people of color out to bring more white people in and oftentimes we’re stuck because we have nowhere to go.