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Speaker 4: It is becoming more and more difficult to actually feel
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Speaker 5: We're going to be talking about the Supreme Court, good
Speaker 5: and bad and mostly bad, but as he be Okay, yes,
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Speaker 2: very important black woman that deserve to be celebrated. The
Speaker 2: first and foremost we're going to talk about again the
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Speaker 2: from NPR. Something the Supreme Court did that was good.
Speaker 2: The US Supreme Court stepped back from the brink of
Speaker 2: totally gutting the landmark nineteen sixty five Voting Rights Act.
Speaker 2: That's very important. Okay, this is why I'm still optimistic.
Speaker 2: By a five to four vote, a coalition of conservative
Speaker 2: and liberal Justice justices reaffirmed the Court's nineteen eighty six
Speaker 2: president interpreting how legislative districts must be drawn under the
Speaker 2: landmark Voting Rights Act as amended in nineteen eighty two,
Speaker 2: the Court said that in Alabama, a state where there
Speaker 2: are seven congressional seats and one in four voters is black,
Speaker 2: Republican dominated state legislature had denied African American voters a
Speaker 2: reasonable chance to elect a second representative of their choice.
Speaker 2: The decision could reverberate across other states with reconsideration of
Speaker 2: how congressional lines are drawn in areas with significant black populations.
Speaker 2: Chief Justice John Roberts, who authored or joined prior decisions
Speaker 2: that gutted key parts of the voting rights law, on Thursday,
Speaker 2: wrote for the Court majority to preserve the way voting
Speaker 2: rights law has been applied for nearly forty years in
Speaker 2: redistricting cases. Who was joined by federal conservative Brett Kavanaugh. Crazy,
Speaker 2: you know that would never have expected that, but sure,
Speaker 2: I'll take it, man, and I got a credit where
Speaker 2: it's due. They joined the Court's three liberal justices Sonya Sodemayer,
Speaker 2: Alana Kagan, and Katanji Brown Jackson. Basically, the long and
Speaker 2: the short of it is jerry mandering. This this deals
Speaker 2: a blow to jerry mandering, which is often a tool
Speaker 2: used to repress and suppress the influence of black people
Speaker 2: and marginalize people's votes in this country. So shout out
Speaker 2: to the Supreme Court for getting that thing right that
Speaker 2: that the implications there are a lot bigger than a
Speaker 2: lot of people know voting. I think voting is still
Speaker 2: very important, So the implications are a lot further reaching
Speaker 2: than many people though.
Speaker 4: You think people's in people's minds, they marginalized that what
Speaker 4: could have happened here? And maybe people just weren't paying attention.
Speaker 2: Okay, so help me up.
Speaker 4: I'm just and I'm not pushing back, but I think,
Speaker 4: or I guess sometimes I'm just speaking for us and
Speaker 4: maybe we spend too much time talking about these things
Speaker 4: with each other. You said that the implications were much
Speaker 4: larger than people think. I thought that they were. I
Speaker 4: thought that things could have been catastrophic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they're gone the other way.
Speaker 4: So that's yeah, absolutely, this was not something that in
Speaker 4: my head could have been any bigger. Yeah, this is
Speaker 4: especially because of the things that have been happening. Sure,
Speaker 4: like we're gonna wake up and it's going to be
Speaker 4: nineteen fifty. It's gonna be eighteen fifty if you want insurrection. Yeah, well, anyway,
Speaker 4: so let's get to what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: So the other side of this Supreme Court coin that
Speaker 2: we're talking about is going to take a lot more
Speaker 2: peeling back because it really, again speaks to the sensibilities
Speaker 2: of a lot of people in this country, not just
Speaker 2: conservative folks, but a lot of people who don't understand
Speaker 2: affirmative action. So we're gonna educate you today about what
Speaker 2: that was, who actually benefited from it, and really what
Speaker 2: we've lost here. First, I want to say that Clarence
Speaker 2: Thomas is super whack. He doesn't speak for us, He's
Speaker 2: not that dude. And you'll see why we say that Also,
Speaker 2: I want to make sure that I say that the
Speaker 2: Supreme Court is not necessarily to be all and end all.
Speaker 2: There are checks and balances in government so that no
Speaker 2: one branch has supreme authority in perpetuity. Okay, you by
Speaker 2: listening to the show like this, and I'm sure you
Speaker 2: listen to other programming, and you seek out ways to
Speaker 2: become a better human being. First off, I applaud you.
Speaker 2: But you're the sort of person that needs to influence
Speaker 2: your social circles so that people can think critically about things.
Speaker 2: And hopefully we'll kind of give you some perspective today.
Speaker 2: I'm going to read from NPR. In a historic decision,
Speaker 2: the US Supreme Court on Thursday effectively ended race conscious
Speaker 2: admissions programs at colleges and universities across the country. In
Speaker 2: a decision divided along ideological lines, the six justice conservative
Speaker 2: supermajority invalidated admissions programs at Harvard and the University of
Speaker 2: North Carolina. The decision reverses decades of precedent upheld over
Speaker 2: the years by narrow Supreme Court majorities that included Republican
Speaker 2: appointed justices. It ends the ability of colleges and universities
Speaker 2: public and private to do what most say they still
Speaker 2: need to do. Consider race as one of the many
Speaker 2: factors in deciding which of the qualified applicants to be admitted.
Speaker 2: Chief Justice John Roberts, a longtime critic of affirmative action programs,
Speaker 2: wrote the decision for the Court majority, saying that the
Speaker 2: nation's colleges and universities must use color blind criteria and admissions.
Speaker 2: Oh if only that were true, real quick, before I
Speaker 2: keep reading. Using color blind admissions criteria does not deal
Speaker 2: with like at Harvard, we're going to talk about this Harvard,
Speaker 2: forty three percent of the people that attend Harvard, our
Speaker 2: legacy attendees.
Speaker 4: Can you explain to our audience what that means?
Speaker 2: So if your dad went to Harvard, there's like a
Speaker 2: referential treatment for you if you're an applicant. I believe
Speaker 2: effectually that's what it is. Don't don't hold you to it.
Speaker 2: If you want more exact.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's nepotism, yeah right, yeah, as a legacy. Yes,
Speaker 4: my parents went to school here, right, so I get
Speaker 4: to go to school here.
Speaker 2: Add to that that the life based circumstances that really
Speaker 2: need to line up or there to be impactful, meaningful
Speaker 2: not like, Okay, we let three black people in this
Speaker 2: year and the class is fifty thousand people. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, We're there to be impactful numbers that
Speaker 2: really make a difference, and we're not attaining progress according
Speaker 2: to anyone else's timetable, but indeed our own black people's timetable.
Speaker 2: These things need to be addressed. This is not just
Speaker 2: a Harvard thing. This is a thing with our corporate
Speaker 2: culture in this country. With law enforcement, I believe it's
Speaker 2: like sixty five percent of all police officers are white men. Judges,
Speaker 2: same thing, you know, on and on and on. This
Speaker 2: is when people talk about systemic issues, systemic racism, that
Speaker 2: these are issues that privileged white people and really prevent
Speaker 2: barriers to black people, and they operate more or less
Speaker 2: in perpetuity unless unchecked by something a lah affirmative action. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'll keep reading. The majority of opinion says quote many
Speaker 2: universities have for too long concluded wrongly that the touchdown
Speaker 2: of an individual's identity is not challenges bested, but skills
Speaker 2: built or lessons learned, but the color of their skin.
Speaker 2: Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice. Okay, Now,
Speaker 2: what does he think has been happening. Right, It's like
Speaker 2: it's like turning a blind eye your own privilege, your
Speaker 2: own how these things help you. But when it becomes
Speaker 2: formalized for the benefit of someone else who is seeking
Speaker 2: to kind of equal things out, there's there's some equity
Speaker 2: built into the equation, equitable treatment, if you will, Then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, it's well, whoa, whoa, we can't
Speaker 2: have this. In other words, I've said it recently on
Speaker 2: the show too, and I really need to get this
Speaker 2: quote quote right.
Speaker 6: But to.
Speaker 2: The privileged, quality feels like oppression.
Speaker 4: So that's kind of what the idea that these admissions
Speaker 4: offices have been admitting people just because they're black. It's
Speaker 4: such a ridiculous thing to think, especially for a Supreme
Speaker 4: Court justice who either knows better right and is shaping
Speaker 4: this false narrative intentionally, or doesn't and therefore is drastically
Speaker 4: underqualified to be a Supreme Court justice.
Speaker 2: This is where we're going with this. But they still
Speaker 2: ignore their perch, right, they ignore where they stand and
Speaker 2: how they got there, and then they look at other
Speaker 2: people and okay, well, affirmative action is unconstitutional. Well, then
Speaker 2: we have four hundred years of unconstitutionedtional behavior in this
Speaker 2: country that we need to remedy because now the systems
Speaker 2: are built and they're self refueling and self perpetuating.
Speaker 4: I have to think, right, and I have to say
Speaker 4: the word think because I know, but I have to
Speaker 4: say the word think sure that he understands that even
Speaker 4: with affirmative action, it didn't.
Speaker 2: Flip in our favor. Yeah, we're not. Affirmative action did
Speaker 2: not turn us into the majority.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't graduate from Harvard, even those that did
Speaker 4: were the minority yet absolutely, Yeah, like by a lot.
Speaker 2: And I think your point that you made earlier is
Speaker 2: that to graduate from Harvard, you can't just show up
Speaker 2: and be black and that's it. You have to be
Speaker 2: exceptional first, right, So this is just making sure that
Speaker 2: exceptional black people were included among the ranks, to.
Speaker 4: Make sure that exceptional black people were considered considered. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it didn't assure you were admitted. You got a chance
Speaker 4: to apply, Yeah and be taking serious. That's like, how
Speaker 4: dare you do you remember what a chance? You're gonna
Speaker 4: help me explain.
Speaker 2: You remember what happened with the football people when they
Speaker 2: were trying to hire black coaches, but they weren't really
Speaker 2: trying to hire them. Well, it's not what happened, past sence,
Speaker 2: So tell me, tell us about the story.
Speaker 4: Because the rule in the NFL. I don't even know
Speaker 4: if this is if it's still a thing, because it's
Speaker 4: proven to be so ineffective. But the Rooney rule made
Speaker 4: it so that when hiring a head coach you had
Speaker 4: to interview a black candidate. It did not require that
Speaker 4: you hired them. And it's been a failure because they'd
Speaker 4: invite someone like Ramses, someone like you to say they
Speaker 4: met that very very low standard, interviewed a black guy.
Speaker 4: Now we're going to hire the person we wanted to
Speaker 4: hire anyway. And now, even though the majority of the
Speaker 4: players are black, they pretend that there is not a
Speaker 4: pipeline for there to be black people in charge in
Speaker 4: the head coach position or the general manager position, which
Speaker 4: are the people who make the decisions and pretty much
Speaker 4: run these franchises. So these things are created because left
Speaker 4: to their own decisions, a lot of people would not
Speaker 4: even consider black people for these opportunities.
Speaker 2: Okay, thinking these rules had.
Speaker 4: To be instituted just for us to be considered.
Speaker 2: So watch this again. It's hard for them to look
Speaker 2: at themselves with that same level of critical thinking. Right,
Speaker 2: they're like, well I got here, honestly, Well, they have
Speaker 2: the false.
Speaker 4: There's this false idea that this country is a meritocracy
Speaker 4: where if you're better or you know, bigger or faster
Speaker 4: than you win and we know better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have thousands of years that show us that
Speaker 2: that's not it's not even remotely true.
Speaker 4: You know, left to our own devices, are we are
Speaker 4: not fair? Especially here. You know, my kid was smart,
Speaker 4: so he got in. You don't think it helps that
Speaker 4: that building is named after you, sir.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's more to it than just that. There's lots
Speaker 2: of smart people. But the hypocrisy is on full display,
Speaker 2: and it nowhere is it on better display than with
Speaker 2: Clarence Thomas. I remember when we went to the National
Speaker 2: Museum of African American History and Culture and they had
Speaker 2: this huge photo of They're a good Marshall. There was
Speaker 2: this huge celebration of Katanji Brown Jackson, and then they
Speaker 2: had this little tiny picture of Clarence Thomas because he
Speaker 2: is black and he was on the Supreme Court. That's
Speaker 2: technically true, but there was no celebration in the way
Speaker 2: that there was there a good Marshall and Katanji Brown Jackson.
Speaker 2: Now you could say he was the first black woman,
Speaker 2: he was the first black Supreme Court justice. Clarence Thomas
Speaker 2: found in the middle. Oh, he doesn't, you know, he's
Speaker 2: not really breaking new ground here, but I think that.
Speaker 4: I mean, what you just said is the point. Though,
Speaker 4: How are you not breaking new grown?
Speaker 2: How did you?
Speaker 4: How did you get there and decide status quose? Fine?
Speaker 2: Like that's the problem.
Speaker 4: That's why there's no celebrations, Like how do you from
Speaker 4: where you're from get there a place that should have
Speaker 4: felt impossible to get to and then say, all right,
Speaker 4: my work here is done.
Speaker 2: And for those of you listening who don't know where
Speaker 2: Clarence Thomas is from and his story, we're gonna we're
Speaker 2: gonna share that with you. Actually, let's just do it
Speaker 2: right now. Let's let's share it right now. So we
Speaker 2: have a clip from stephen A stephen A. Smith, So
Speaker 2: go ahead and play that clip.
Speaker 7: Dou Catholic, originally intended to be a priest, actually decided
Speaker 7: not to be that, by the way, because he became
Speaker 7: frustrated of the church's insufficient attempt to combat racism. Ended
Speaker 7: up attending Yale Law School via affirmative action. He attended
Speaker 7: law school. He was an affirmative action student. Gets better
Speaker 7: appointed by Ronald Reagan as chairman of the Equal Employment
Speaker 7: Opportunity Commission. This man once oversaw the EEOC. The very
Speaker 7: job he held was to address racial inequality in this country.
Speaker 7: He made it to the Supreme Court, second Black the
Speaker 7: history of the Supreme Court. His predecessor was the great
Speaker 7: third Good Marshal. I could easily go into Clarence Thomas,
Speaker 7: and I think doctor Michael Eric Dyson put it best.
Speaker 7: He said, this is the face of a man who
Speaker 7: climbed the ladder of affirmative action to his present perch
Speaker 7: of power, only to help destroy the very ladder on
Speaker 7: which he ascended. You used affirmative action to climb the
Speaker 7: ladder that you climbed to success, and then did everything
Speaker 7: you could to knock it down so nobody else could
Speaker 7: come up the same way you did. That is Clarence Thomas.
Speaker 2: Okay, Now I want to read a quote from Clarence Thomas,
Speaker 2: or read a passage here. Justice Clarence Thomas took the
Speaker 2: unusual step of reading from the bench parts of his
Speaker 2: lengthy concurring opinion meaning he was on the side of
Speaker 2: people trying to gut affirmative action. He wrote, Sorry, Thursday's decision,
Speaker 2: he wrote, sees the university's admissions policies for what they are,
Speaker 2: rudderless race based preferences. Those policies fly in the face
Speaker 2: of our colorblind constitution. Okay, so Justice Clarence Thomas actually
Speaker 2: read that. Okay. Now there are people that will say, listen, man,
Speaker 2: that's black people, black people's problem, black people's issue. What
Speaker 2: do they have to do with it? Okay, Well there's
Speaker 2: more to this story, Okay, because affirmative action didn't just
Speaker 2: help black people. Okay, there's a lot more here. And
Speaker 2: by the way, there's a good friend of the show
Speaker 2: and a good friend of me and Q. Isaac's the third,
Speaker 2: the son of the great Isaac Hays, the singer and
Speaker 2: the owner founders.
Speaker 4: Singer, composer, writing director, producer. Isaac Hays.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Isaac's the third is the owner and founder
Speaker 2: of fan Base, the social media app that you and
Speaker 2: I are big fans of. If you're not a big
Speaker 2: fan of Twitter, really algorithms and all kinds of nonsense
Speaker 2: fan bases where you belong. The owner and the founder
Speaker 2: of fan base. Isaac has put up a post recently
Speaker 2: that said that this effort of the Supreme Court to
Speaker 2: gut affirmative action goes all the way back to twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: Then he says, but you didn't vote though, right, And
Speaker 2: so again we're talking about voting, and earlier when we
Speaker 2: talked about what the Supreme Court did that was good,
Speaker 2: hopefully end upholding or rather pushing back against people's rights
Speaker 2: or states rights, to jerry mander away the black the
Speaker 2: influence of the black vote, voting matters, and for everyone
Speaker 2: who thinks that your vote doesn't matter, it does. Because
Speaker 2: it was a conservative president, it's stacked a now conservative
Speaker 2: Supreme Court that now it's taken away abortion. They've taken
Speaker 2: away affirmative action, as we've discussed, they have taken away
Speaker 2: protections against our lgbtqia plus brothers and sisters. They've taken
Speaker 2: away Listen, if you have student loans, the current president
Speaker 2: was trying to forgive twenty thousand dollars the student loans
Speaker 2: for everybody fifty thousand? Was it okay? Fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 2: a student loans? So if you have student loans, the
Speaker 2: government or the president had a plan in place to
Speaker 2: forgive that that would have made a real measurable impact
Speaker 2: on you and your life and your immediate here and now,
Speaker 2: the same government that forgave all those pandemic loans, they
Speaker 2: have the capacity to do so this ship hasn't sunk,
Speaker 2: and all those pandemic loans were forgiven. But this is
Speaker 2: for every man. This isn't for business owners, This isn't
Speaker 2: for you, know, this is for you if you have
Speaker 2: student loans or people that you might know. Right, the
Speaker 2: same Supreme Court push back on those efforts, and now
Speaker 2: the presidential administration underneath Joe Biden has to find another
Speaker 2: way to deliver that relief to the American public. So
Speaker 2: your vote shapes outcomes absolutely. And Isaac Cays was right.
Speaker 4: I want to read something before we move on. This
Speaker 4: is from the Onion. This is by Cicero Thompson. I
Speaker 4: decided to become a slave so one day my descendants
Speaker 4: could steal college admission spots.
Speaker 2: Affirmative action in the world.
Speaker 4: Of higher education can be an incredibly difficult topic to address.
Speaker 4: While many people have strong opinions about how the policy
Speaker 4: affects racing college admissions, I as an enslaved person, have
Speaker 4: uniquely personal ties to the issue. Back in the year
Speaker 4: eighteen twenty three, I decided to become a slave so
Speaker 4: one day my descendants could steal college admission slots.
Speaker 2: Now it was a tough decision, but boy did it
Speaker 2: pay off big time.
Speaker 4: When I opted to become a slave and work in
Speaker 4: cotton fields in South Carolina, I did it with hope
Speaker 4: that in two hundred years my progeny would have an
Speaker 4: unfair advantage while applying to colleges. Deep down, I knew
Speaker 4: that if I sold my body and worked for no
Speaker 4: pay at the hands of my sadistic, violent master, then
Speaker 4: one day my great great great great great grandchild would
Speaker 4: be able to prevent some middle class white kid from
Speaker 4: getting into their dream school. Sorry, Cotin, thanks to me,
Speaker 4: your fifteen thirty SAT score won't be enough. I remember
Speaker 4: it like it was yesterday. I was living in Senegal,
Speaker 4: free and happy, but then had an idea. What if
Speaker 4: I got on a ship and went to a land
Speaker 4: I had never heard of, a place where I knew
Speaker 4: no one, did not speak the language, and spent sixteen
Speaker 4: hours a day doing forced labor while getting whipped and beaten. Yes,
Speaker 4: I thought, if that's what it takes for my prog
Speaker 4: you need to bump someone just as deserving from the
Speaker 4: admissions list, I'll do it.
Speaker 2: It was the perfect plan.
Speaker 4: If I played my cards right, I could all but
Speaker 4: ensure that my descendants would apply to schools, give the
Speaker 4: college no choice but to admit them, and force some
Speaker 4: so so so white kids into their second or third
Speaker 4: choice schools.
Speaker 2: Now, folks, there's more to read.
Speaker 4: And I hope you've caught on by now sarcastic that
Speaker 4: this is a sarcastic isn't even the right word, but
Speaker 4: that this is written to be heard as ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Absolutely well, I'm glad you shared that with us. I
Speaker 2: wanted us to play a video just to leave you
Speaker 2: with some final thoughts. This video comes from Cassim Rashid,
Speaker 2: so let's fire that one off.
Speaker 6: Here's the thing that magas don't seem to understand about
Speaker 6: affirmative action. It was never about admitting unqualified black kids.
Speaker 6: It was all about ensuring that qualified black kids could
Speaker 6: actually get a fair shake at admission. Megas want us
Speaker 6: to forget at the levels of systemic racism in universities.
Speaker 6: I mean, my god, did they realize that HBCUs exists?
Speaker 6: Specifically because after graping, enslaving, murdering, lynching, and torturing black
Speaker 6: people for four hundred years, they wouldn't even allow black
Speaker 6: children to read a book, so black people had to
Speaker 6: build their own schools. And for those claiming that systemic
Speaker 6: racism is over, when when did those systems of white
Speaker 6: supremacy stop? Because right now black and brown schools get
Speaker 6: twenty three billion less in funding than white schools despite
Speaker 6: serving the same number of students. Because even now, forty
Speaker 6: three percent of white students at Harvard are there only
Speaker 6: because of legacy, and three quarters of.
Speaker 2: Them would not have qualified unmerit.
Speaker 6: Meaning they took a seat from a more qualified Black,
Speaker 6: Asian or white student. And spare me the magas who
Speaker 6: say we had to repeal affirmative action because it's discriminatory
Speaker 6: to Asians. No, first of all, agents also benefited from
Speaker 6: affirmative action. And moreover, is this the same GOP that
Speaker 6: near unanimously voted to block a resolution condemning anti Asian
Speaker 6: discrimination the actual unqualified emission you should be upset about.
Speaker 6: Are people like Justice Cavanaugh getting to Yale on legacy.
Speaker 6: The bottom line is this, don't blame black people for
Speaker 6: your own mediocrity.
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Speaker 2: Henrietta Lax born Loretta Pleasant August first, nineteen twenty to
Speaker 2: October fourth, nineteen fifty one was an African American woman
Speaker 2: whose cancer cells are the source of the Hila cell line,
Speaker 2: the first immortalized human cell line and one of the
Speaker 2: most important cell lines in medical research. And a mortalized
Speaker 2: cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa
Speaker 2: cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical
Speaker 2: data to the present day. Lax was the unwitting soul
Speaker 2: of these cells from a tuner biopsied during treatment for
Speaker 2: cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland in
Speaker 2: nineteen fifty one. These cells were then cultured by George
Speaker 2: Otto Gay, who created the cell line known as HeLa,
Speaker 2: which is still used for medical research. As was then
Speaker 2: the practice, no consent was required for culture to culture
Speaker 2: the cells obtained from Lax treatment Neither she nor her
Speaker 2: family were compensated for the extraction or use of the
Speaker 2: HeLa cells. Even though some information about the origins of
Speaker 2: HeLa Hela's sorry immortalized cells was known to researchers after
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy, the Lax family was not made aware of
Speaker 2: the line's existence until nineteen seventy five. With knowledge of
Speaker 2: the cell line's genetic prominence becoming public, its use for
Speaker 2: medical research and for commercial purposes continues to raise concerns
Speaker 2: about privacy and patient's rights. On January twenty ninth, nineteen
Speaker 2: fifty one, Lax went to Johns Hopkins, the only hospital
Speaker 2: in the area that treated black patient, because she felt
Speaker 2: a knot in her womb. She had previously told her
Speaker 2: cousins about the knot, and they assumed correctly that she
Speaker 2: was pregnant, but after giving birth to Joseph, Lax had
Speaker 2: a severe hemorrhage. Her primary care doctor, William C. Wade,
Speaker 2: referred her back to Johns Hopkins. There, her doctor Howard W. Jones,
Speaker 2: took a biopsy of a mass found on LAX's cervix
Speaker 2: for laboratory testing. Soon after, Lax was told that she
Speaker 2: had a malignant epidermoid carcinoma of the cervix. In the
Speaker 2: nineteen seventies, physicians discovered that she had been misdiagnosed and
Speaker 2: actually had an a dino carcinoma. This was a common
Speaker 2: mistake at the time and the treatment would not have differed.
Speaker 2: Lax was treated with radium tube inserts as an impatient
Speaker 2: and discharge a few days later with instructions to return
Speaker 2: for X ray treatments as a follow up. During her treatments,
Speaker 2: two samples were taken from LAX's cervix without her permission
Speaker 2: or knowledge. Sample was of healthy tissue and the other
Speaker 2: was of cancerous These samples were given to George Otto Gay,
Speaker 2: a physician and cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins. The cells
Speaker 2: from the cancerous sample eventually became known as the HeLa
Speaker 2: immortal cell line, commonly used cell line in contemporary biomedical research.
Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety six, Moorhouse School of Medicine held its
Speaker 2: first annual HILA Women's Health Conference, led by physician Ronald Atillo.
Speaker 2: The conference is held to give recognition to Henrietta Lax,
Speaker 2: her cell line. End quote the valuable contribution made by
Speaker 2: African Americans to medical research and clinical practice. The Mayor
Speaker 2: of Atlanta declared this date of the first conference, October eleventh,
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety six. Henrietta Lax Day. LAX's contributions continue to
Speaker 2: be celebrated at yearly events and Turner station. At one
Speaker 2: such event in nineteen ninety seven, then US Congressman from Maryland,
Speaker 2: Robert Elrichi, presented a Congressional resolution recognizing Lax and her
Speaker 2: contributions to medical science and research. In twenty ten, the
Speaker 2: John Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research established the
Speaker 2: annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture Series to honor Henrietta Lax
Speaker 2: and the global impact of HeLa Celles on medicine and research.
Speaker 2: In twenty eleven, Morgan State University in Baltimore granted Lacks
Speaker 2: a posthumous honorary doctorate in public service. Also in twenty eleven,
Speaker 2: the Evergreen School District in Vancouver, Washington, named their new
Speaker 2: high school focused on medical careers, the Henrietta las Health
Speaker 2: and Bioscience High School, becoming the first organization to memorialize
Speaker 2: her publicly by naming the school after her. In twenty fourteen,
Speaker 2: Lax was inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, a minor planet and the main asteroid belt
Speaker 2: was named three, five nine or two six Lax in
Speaker 2: her honor. In twenty eighteen, The New York Times published
Speaker 2: a belated obituary for her as part of the Overlooked
Speaker 2: History Project. Also in twenty eighteen, the National Portrait Gallery
Speaker 2: the National Museum of African American History and Culture Shout
Speaker 2: Out to Him jointly announced the accession of a poetrait
Speaker 2: portrait of Lax by Kadir Nelson. On October sixth, twenty eighteen,
Speaker 2: Johns Hopkins University announced plans to name a research building
Speaker 2: in honor of Lax. The announcement was made at the
Speaker 2: ninth Annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture and the Turner Auditorium
Speaker 2: in East Baltimore by john Hopkins University President Ronald J.
Speaker 2: Daniels and Paul B. Rothman, CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine
Speaker 2: and Dean of the medical Facility the Johns Hopkins University
Speaker 2: School of Medicine, surrounded by several of Las's descendants quote
Speaker 2: through their life, through her life and immortal sells Henrietta
Speaker 2: Lax made a measurable impact on science and medicine that
Speaker 2: has touched countless lives around the world. Daniel said this
Speaker 2: building will stand as a testament to a transformative impact
Speaker 2: on scientific discovery and the ethics it must be under
Speaker 2: grid in its pursuit. Johns Hopkins are profoundly grateful to
Speaker 2: the Lax family their partnership as we continue to learn
Speaker 2: from Miss LAX's life and to honor her and during legacy,
Speaker 2: the building will adjourn Burman Institute of bio Ethics during call,
Speaker 2: located in the corner of Ashland and Rutland Avenues, and
Speaker 2: will quote support programs that enhance participation in partnership for
Speaker 2: members of the community and research that can benefit the community,
Speaker 2: as well as extend the opportunities to further study and
Speaker 2: promote research, ethics and community engagement research throughout expansion of
Speaker 2: the Burman Institute and its work. And finally, in twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: Lax was inducted to the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: There's a lot more accolades and so forth, but still
Speaker 2: not taught in schools, So I didn't know about this woman.
Speaker 2: A lot of people owe their life to this woman,
Speaker 2: a life cancer you name it, like life be living
Speaker 2: if not for this black woman and herself and what
Speaker 2: we've been able to learn and keep them going and
Speaker 2: use them in medicine and so forth.
Speaker 4: And so as the son of a cancer survivor, exton
Speaker 4: my thank you to her and her family and their legacy.
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