{"id":8651,"date":"2022-08-19T17:19:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T17:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8651"},"modified":"2022-08-19T17:19:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T17:19:43","slug":"oregon-health-officials-delayed-a-meeting-because-urgency-is-a-white-supremacy-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8651","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Health Officials Delayed a Meeting Because &#8216;Urgency Is a White Supremacy Value&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) is a government agency that coordinates medical care and social well-being in the Beaver State. During the pandemic, OHA was responsible for coordinating Oregon&#8217;s vaccination drive and disseminating information about COVID-19\u2014both vital tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agency&#8217;s office for equity and inclusion, however, prefers not to rush the business of government. In fact, the office&#8217;s program manager delayed a meeting with partner organizations on the stated grounds that &#8220;urgency is a white supremacy value.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Government employees who are unprepared for meetings should not cite white supremacy as their excuse.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"wYHPiV3j3a\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/07\/02\/urgency-is-a-white-supremacy-value-oregon-health-authority\/\">Oregon Health Officials Delayed a Meeting Because &#8216;Urgency Is a White Supremacy Value&#8217;<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Oregon Health Officials Delayed a Meeting Because &#039;Urgency Is a White Supremacy Value&#039;&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/07\/02\/urgency-is-a-white-supremacy-value-oregon-health-authority\/embed\/#?secret=r6zRxFx7l7#?secret=wYHPiV3j3a\" data-secret=\"wYHPiV3j3a\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) is a government agency that coordinates medical care and social well-being in the Beaver State. During the pandemic, OHA was responsible for coordinating Oregon&#8217;s vaccination drive and disseminating information about COVID-19\u2014both vital tasks.<\/p>\n<p>The agency&#8217;s office for equity and inclusion, however, prefers not to rush the business of government. In fact, the office&#8217;s program manager delayed a meeting with partner organizations on the stated grounds that &#8220;urgency is a white supremacy value.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Government employees who are unprepared for meetings should not cite white supremacy as their excuse.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[617,505,642,49,758,1022,1280],"class_list":["post-8651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-bureaucracy","tag-oregon","tag-race","tag-racial-bias","tag-racism","tag-white-supremacy","tag-woke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8652,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions\/8652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}