CDC Employees Call Out Agency's 'Toxic Culture Of Racial Aggressions'

A letter from current CDC staff recently submitted to Director Robert Redfield demands that the agency address structural racism toward Black employees.A letter from current CDC staff recently submitted to Director Robert Redfield demands that the agency address structural racism toward Black employees.

"In light of the recent calls for justice across this country and around the world, we, as dedicated public health professionals, can no longer stay silent to the widespread acts of racism and discrimination within CDC that are, in fact, undermining the agency's core mission," the letter reads. As of Monday afternoon, 1,204 staff members had signed the letter — more than 10% of the agency's workforce — and the number of signatories is growing, Jones says. She adds that at least one division head signed, and about 300 employees chose to endorse the letter anonymously. Only current CDC employees could sign the letter, and each person could sign it only once, according to Jones. Any CDC employee could sign, not just people of color.

cdc employees are “lifetime” not per election. This makes the problems at the CDCgov systemic.

Pretty soon we won’t have any agency left

“It also calls for the CDC to declare racism a public health crisis in the U.S.” That pretty much sums it up right there. This is about perpetuating the lie that black America is being oppressed.

Any alleged 'disproportionate effect' of Sars-Cov2 on minorities is not the fault of the CDC.

Estivali_8 Yes, there are too many black racists and blacks hating Jews.

Wow like the CDC isn’t busy right now? Perhaps put solving a global pandemic before self no matter the cause?

I wish that everyone would just get along with each other regardless of skin color. When one is in an emergency, do we care what color the responder is? Just saying.

So holding a person's skin tone against them is wrong and adversely affects mental, physical and emotional health -- unless you happen to be any color besides black? Why are you unable to see how insulting that is to blacks as if they can't handle what others can? It is racist.

Goes both ways

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realDonaldTrump The whole government and government organizations are filled with idiots time for a mass firings

Because of the media an Facebook

Oh hell yeah! Everyone has known for year the CDC is a new age cover for the Klan👍👍🤡🤡🤡🤡

suevisa 🇺🇸👍🏻👏

Pretty clear that the CDC serves no useful purpose and should be defunded and shut down.

EndSystemicRacism CDC

The racists are all the people who keep talking about racism instead of behavior. So maybe you do need it. It's all you think about and talk about .When you are ready to talk about behavior, the rest I us will be waiting.

A public health crisis?!? Now I have heard it all

At least we know where to begin looking forvthe leaker

...&let’s let Antifa decide..who is a fascist &who should be attacked.. and then call everybody on their list “fascists” and “a risk to public safety”..and THEN ask the CDC to declare the whole ball of wax..”a public health crisis”.. psst! Is anyone else here getting a headache?

I have an idea, why doesn't the CDC do some 'tough love' investigation on how they failed this country on its core responsibility of managing infectious diseases. Enough with the SJW crap, get back to protecting us from future epidemics/pandemics.

More political nonsense.

great job CDC. now ppl probably won’t even trust your advice on the pandemic.

The HEAD of the CDC’s office of equal opportunity is a black man. And one of the other 2 black senior employees is a DEPUTY DIRECTOR. The % of blacks at the top is 10%, while blacks represent 13.4% of the population. So, if they hire ONE MORE BLACK PERSON they’re equal

It is amazing how racists get so offended at mere stories about racism...Wow!!!

Hopefully this means all racism. And not tailor made for black people. Because all people can be racist. No one should suffer because of a skin colour. No one.

But it's completely acceptable to hate whites and Jews? they always frame this racism issue as a black and white issue. but you have a large majority of blacks who hate Jews Mexicans and Asians. And I bet my right lung those 1200 were reading white fragility.

Eastern stars network in human resources to promote fellow racist bigots

When it comes to working class communities, minorities are disproportionately affected.

The CDC should ALSO declare “the silent killer” called Domestic Violence a public health crisis as well. The Violence HAS to STOP. It’s not a Red State thing. It’s not a Blue State thing. It’s an ALL AMERICAN health crisis. ❤️💙

Can_ada Dr. REDFIELD, It's time to go....you may be a good Dr. but, you can't play this game. This has been a big fail...

The madness of crowds.

Ha ha .

If this country is so racist then why does every hate crime have to be faked?

BLMTerrorists and there Klansmen are way more racist than white people

BLMTerrorists

BlackPrivilege is WhitePrivilege

Yes! And how about glyphosate contamination? Fair housing? ASD? Child trafficking? Hunger? Air pollution? Let’s shift our mindset around what health really is and the systems that can support it (or deteriorate it). realleadership allieshaveworktodo thinksystemic

Oh there is a surprise. I wonder why they feel that way now?

Now we know why the CDC can't manage pandemics anymore.

This is a nothing but a Marxist takeover.

These are not legitimate medical professionals. They are despicable racist social activists.

'Hate' is the problem. I disagree with some black people and 'hate' causes them to act & use the SAME racial slurs & actions claimed to be racist on me. So, CDC, study hateful behaviors of everyone, regardless of race or your results will fall to CONFIRMATION BIAS.

Apparently, the virus also fat shames.

Meanwhile at NPR...

Defund the CDC. If it works to cure racism in the police, it'll work there too right?

Well there goes a whole deck of those CARDS!!!

So the agency is raycist to itself. That’s some trick.

Yes, racism is a problem, so is MSM suppression...

Not gonna happen in Trumplandia.

pacionezayas Will ISBEnews declare racism a public health crisis as well?

PublicHealth multiple studies confirm that racism is a public health issue.

Fire all 1200. That's a start. Racism is a global societal issue not a disease/public health crisis. Ergo not the province of the CDC.

Are you posting this again because you were getting absolutely hammered in the comments on the last one?

For those of you crying wolf on this article or this idea: racism & discrimination have proven adverse effects on the mental, physical, and emotional health of individuals. This isn’t new:

DID I REMEMBER TO SAY THANK YOU

Here we have an organization that I'm required by law to support, engaging in activism when their sole purpose is scientific research. Wonderful.

And they are a partisan joke.

Absolutely stupid. Ignore it

Racist comments coming in. It's a disease.

The CDC needs to stop being racist.

What does that even mean? What are specific acts of racism and discrimination? It’s so ambiguous. And why would the CDC be declaring a social issue a public health crisis? It’s getting harder for me to take this seriously.

Don’t they have enough epidemics to worry about right now...?

Just fire the ones that didn’t sign the petition. problem solved. that’s how that works right?

Lol these soft ass BLM idiots have run amok.

Merit Race

Now that's some hard core jumping of the shark right there. 😂😂😂

Good luck. Sincerely. A significant portion of the population doesn’t believe covid, which has killed +135k is real. I see it as a tough sell that racism is real and a serious problem.

Imagine feeling discriminated against while having the full backing of international finance and the corporate media.

They are based in Atlanta. Not surprised whatsoever. Happy to see them exposed.

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