22: Getting Real With My Views on Voting in 2020 and Onward

Omari Richins, MPH

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Episode 22 of Public Health Careers

In this episode, I get real about some of my views on the 2020 election. I preface this episode with some information on I talk about why I had disliked Obama for a while in my younger life.

I talk a little bit more about the team and work we’ll be working on at the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust.

I am not saying that Gadaffi did not do bad things, but he was surely someone that truly helped his people thrive during his 44 years of rule. He did things that the USA could only wish they could provide for their citizens.

I talk about Breonna Taylor and how the money her family was paid is tied to a rigged system that targets underserved and overpoliced communities while banks are making profits off of it. And still there is no justice or accountability – the system has to be destroyed and built back up. I talk about the broken restaurant industry that is perpetuating modern day slavery with its unlivable wages.

I also talk about how I think Andrew Yang had some policies that would have shifted the USA political system away from elites and big corporations and towards the people and a public health framework. How I think Elizabeth Warren wanting repatriations would have been key to improving economic empowerment of black communities.