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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUS Surgeon General promotes racist tropes
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Jerome Adams, U.S. Surgeon General, tells black people, Latinos and other ppl of color to avoid alcohol and drugs and adds: "Do it for your abuela, do it for your grandaddy, do it for your Big Mama, do it for your pop pop."
Context: Many found this language highly offensive.
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US Surgeon General promotes racist tropes (Original Post)
mcar
Apr 2020
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dalton99a
(81,068 posts)1. Jerome Adams is the dumbest and most useless Surgeon General in U.S. history
hlthe2b
(101,730 posts)2. This guy is clueless.
Damn near as bad as Ben Carson.
underpants
(182,279 posts)3. He said that today?
Mike Nelson
(9,903 posts)4. Well...
... I did not hear that... I did like his showing the inhaler and commenting on asthma. My neighbor has asthma. The SG does work for Crooked Donald, tho... anything he says should be questioned, due to his working for Crooked Donald.
Mike Nelson
(9,903 posts)9. Okay...
... I see it being addressed now.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)5. This explains why he is on Team Trump. eom
UTUSN
(70,496 posts)6. Being an airhead is no excuse, neither is coming from PENCE's shop in Indiana.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)7. What a fuckin idiot ... Alcindor is hitting him on on that question