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Richmond declares racism a public health crisis. What happens next?

When gunshots rang out at National Park in D.C. during a major league baseball game earlier this month, Richmond City Councilman Michael Jones said his reaction at the moment is one example of why the city declared racism a public health crisis.

Jones was at the game sitting along the third baseline.

“I’m bothered by the fact that I wasn’t bothered by the gunfire because I hear it all the time right here,” Jones said near a house in south Richmond. “If I’m that way at 53, what about these kids that are growing up in that?”

The resolution makes Richmond the first locality in Virginia to make this public health declaration. The Virginia General Assembly passed a similar statement earlier in the year.

You can read the full text of the resolution here.

“It’s time to take an anti-racist stand; it’s time to get at the systems of inequity,” Jones said.

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4 thoughts on “Richmond declares racism a public health crisis. What happens next?”

  1. An individual possessing yet incapable of properly using any form of a firearm – is a Public Health Crisis!

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