https://www.marinij.com/2021/02/02/marin-county-health-director-touts-equity-progress/
Equity Progress
“These efforts reflect our belief that racism is a public health and social crisis,” said McLarin, whose department has 750 employees and a budget of $210 million.
Is that true?
Merriam Webster
Definition .... Equity
1 a : justice according to natural law or right; specifically : freedom from bias or favoritism
McLarin said the most consequential action the department has taken so far is to educate its employees about their own racial bias.
“There is a lot of foundational work that has to be done,” McLarin said, “for all of us to learn where our biases are.”
Thirty of the department’s top executives are attending monthly labs to expand their “capacity to create and lead an anti-racist organization,” said McLarin.
Department employees also attend “safe space, brave space” sessions organized by Anyania Muse, Marin County’s equity officer. And the department’s social services division staff attended a three-day training on “racial sobriety.”
“Racial sobriety addresses the concept that we have to be aware of, the racist ideas that may have been ingrained in us by our larger culture,” said Aimee Reedy, who was hired as the department’s chief strategy officer in December 2019 at an annual salary of $96,969.
“They use the word sobriety,” Reedy added, “because the idea is you have to recover from having these ideas.”
The department is also seeking to hire its own “equity manager,” who will be paid a starting annual salary of $105,348.
McLarin, reporting to the Board of Supervisors last week, said she began work on implementing the strategy shortly after being hired, but she had to put the project on hold briefly when the coronavirus pandemic hit Marin in March.
“In July 2020, we thought we were in a place to relaunch our action teams,” McLarin said.
McLarin said the department is not tracking the number of employee hours being spent on the equity initiative or its total cost.
Reedy said there are six teams of department employees directly involved, and each team has eight to 15 employees. The employees perform the equity work in addition to their normal assignments.
In August, McLarin told supervisors that the department lacked the capacity to continue a food distribution program operated by local restaurants, even though the program was funded by the state and federal government.
“We are really overly stretched at this time as a department,” McLarin said at the time. “We have found ourselves not only fighting the COVID-19 pandemic but also getting ready to support fire season.”
McLarin said it is unusual for a department whose focus is providing health services to involve itself in education.
“In order to make an equity impact we really needed to understand that these issues start early,” she said.
This is really disturbing.... Beyond the beyond. MLK JFK What were you fighting for? This? This is what got you gunned down for? Is Racist the worst word in the dictionary, is their anything lower? Some people being paid by the tax dollars of the People of Marin County are now out to get the worst people in the world .... Racists! We will build a society that seeks Racists wherever they exist and out them. It could be you. Wait a minute... it is you! Hah! Wait a minute if you oppose my plan to 'heal' the world you must be racist, that doesn't matter because all White People are racists so... Here we go.. you will love this Progressive environment we will create ... Doesn't seem like progress to me.
Kerry "What I am doing almost full time is working to win the battle of climate change" Climate Czar John Kerry defending his use of a private jet
to fly to Iceland to receive an award for his leadership in fighting Climate Change. Hah! Is this world funny?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfVvAV582_o
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