Historically black sites helped to tell the story of africanamerican migration. They argue for additional efforts and resources to preserve such places for current and future generations. This discussion was part of the association for the study of africanamerican life in history annual meeting. Hello, and welcome. Hello and welcome to the association for the study of africanamerican life and histories 104th annual conference. How the National Park service tells the story of black migrations. My name is madeleine, and im the Senior Executive assistant at the National Parks Conservation Association. Is this better . Sorr sorry about that. On behalf of theresa and the president and ceo, thank you for taking the time to join us and welcome. For those of you not familiar with the National Parks Conservation Association, weve been a powerful, independent voice working to strengthen and protect americas National Parks for 100 years. Through our nationwide network of offices and with our more
They do community service. Thats Great Community outreach. Each clinic as a Community Person who goes out into the community, promoting care, promoting getting patients to go to the clinic and get the care taken care of. A wonderful model. The staff feels good about the staff feels good. So many other dental assistants are College Educated young men and women. They care. Theres just one or two, if you want to go to dental school, dental hygiene school, we will pay your way if you offer to come back. So their own National Health service. They have their own National Health service corps. I can tell you, im on the board, unpaid as or directors, they want to expand out of state. They are restricted because the ceo is in nba. Anything in that model we can learn from . Yeah, i think we could mic, mic. I think the else and could probably learn as well. But the task we are faced with the is not just taking care of medicaid on dental. So you know, we have to contend with adults, content with p
Is white and the victim is black, it is found to be justified in 17 of the cases. Black victim, justified in 17 . Lack shooter, black shooter, justified homicide 1. 4 . States,tand your ground it is justified only by nine percent. ,here stand your ground laws 70 justified. Nonstandard ground states, only nine percent. Here is the other statistic that had me very angry. That wasbi data provided by paul henderson. When an older white man kills a it is cheatedman it is deemed to the file 49 . Man killsolder black a younger white man, it is seen justifiable nine percent of the time. It is not black people feeling sensitive and victimized as we often hear in these debates. A victim. El like these statistics are galling and troubling and why probably most of your black friends and people who care about black people were so devastated after the Trayvon Martin situation. Thecally we felt like government verdict gave a license to kill black people. A piece about how i had been with a bunch of m
This was about dignity. This was about respect. This was about the sign, that iconic sign we would see all the time, i am a man. And there should have been something that said i am a woman. But that was about human dignity. For me, its really a reminder of what this work is all about. And, you know, i always appreciate gains, but im never really satisfied. And as long as we have the homicide rate, even though its going down, in the United States of america that we see, and mayor strickland talked about the en cars ration rate, thity literacy rate, the Unemployment Rate, every possible indicator that you can measure in many instances on the good side africanamericans and other people of color at the bottom, on the bad side at the top, and especially black men, and so for me, it was, you know, the awesomeness of the moment, but also a reminder that when we get back home, there is still more work to be done. And how do we address these issues . As a nation, and ill close with this, what i