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From the Daily Mail:
Surgeon general under fire for 'offensive' comments
Surgeon General Jerome Adams has been met with outrage by the black community for using phrases like 'abuela', 'big momma' and 'poppop', while pleading for minorities to not drink or smoke and follow the government's guidelines to slow the spread of the coronavirus .
'We need you to do this if not for yourself than for your abuela. Do it for your granddaddy, do it for your big momma, do it for your poppop,' the nation's top doctor said Friday at the daily coronavirus taskforce briefing - while also advising those groups to 'avoid alcohol, tobacco and drugs.'
Adams told Americans of color that they need to 'step up' to stop the spread of coronavirus, and said 'social ills' are likely a contributing factor when looking at the dire statistics that the outbreak has killed twice as many black and Latino people than white Americans.
Now members of the black community are calling out the Surgeon General for 'pandering' to them with his use of slang and also for his 'offensive' instruction that those specific communities to stop drinking and smoking during this pandemic.
TV host and actress Claudia Jordan took to Twitter to express her outrage at Adams' comments.
'The surgeon general telling black folks not to drink and smoke and do it for ya "paa paa and big momma". Where they get this guy from? How dumb do they think we are with this? How bout suggesting that EVERYONE cut back? Let's not do that ok?' Jordan said.
One man on Twitter, David DeLoatch, said: 'Let me tell a lot of you something, we don't talk the way movies, songs, and the media portrays us. The Surgeon General is trying to relate to a life he never lived, listen to his voice and they way he speaks. He has never called anyone "big momma," and neither have I.'
Other questioned why Adams' word choice, writing: 'As if people wouldn't understand him if he said, "Do it for your grandparents"?'
Some bashed him for using 'stereotypical ethnic names for our relative'.
And activist Blaine Hardaway wrote: 'I really would like to say I'm surprised but of course I'm not. Trump sent the only black guy on his team out to chastise black and Latino people for smoking and drinking, as if that's the reason our communities are predisposed to this virus. Just disgusting.'
Adams was met with immediate push back for his comments later in the briefing when PBS NewsHour's Yamiche Alcindor asked him to respond to those who might have been offended by his colloquialisms.
'We need targeted outreach to the African-American community and I used the language that is used in my family,' Adams said. 'I have a Puerto Rican brother-in-law, I call my granddaddy "granddaddy" I have relatives who call their grandparents big momma.'
'That was not meant to be offensive,' he added. 'That's the language that we use and I use and we need to continue to target our outreach to those communities.'
Alcindor also pressed Adams on why he mentioned drugs and alcohol, when talking specifically about communities of color.
'All Americans need to avoid these substances at all times,' he said.
On Wednesday, New York released data that showed black and Latino people were twice as likely to die from coronavirus than white residents.
Similar figures are popping up around the country including in Chicago where 70 per cent of the deaths have been black people, who only make up 30 per cent of the population.
In Louisiana, with New Orleans being another hot spot, 70 per cent of the dead have been black. Black people only make up 32 per cent of residents in the state.
'Everywhere we look, the coronavirus is devastating our communities,' said Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP.
Johnson and other black leaders, including Rev. Jesse Jackson, were on a call Friday with Vice President Mike Pence, who is leading the White House's coronavirus taskforce, and Adams, who took over the briefing room podium to discuss the call and the numbers.
'So what's going on?' he said. 'Well it's alarming, but it's not surprising that people of color have a greater burden of chronic health conditions.'
Among those are high blood pressure, which Adams said African-Americans and Native Americans see at a much younger age than their white counterparts.
'Puerto Ricans have higher rates of asthma and black boys are three times as likely to die of asthma than their white counterparts,' Adams said.
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Additional Info on Dr Jerome Adams (Not a hit piece)!
Surgeon General Dr Jerome Adams has become a household name as he appears at daily White House briefings to advise the public on coronavirus risks and the measures the government is taking to stop the spread of the deadly virus.
Since being appointed as Surgeon General by President Trump in 2017, Adams has pioneered the needle exchange program as states struggle with opioid abuse, but he is now facing the biggest challenge in his career due to the coronavirus pandemic.
By all means Adams, an anesthesiologist, comes from a solid, middle class family in Maryland.
Both his parents, Richard and Edrena Adams, were teachers and his sister is mental health professional. But his drive for battling drug addiction and abuse comes from his wayward brother Phillip, who is currently serving a prison term for burglary.
Adams, 45, got his bachelor's degree in biochemistry and psychology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and a medical degree from Indiana School of Medicine.
In 2014, he was appointed by then-Governor Mike Pence to serve as Indiana's health commissioner until 2017 when he was appointed Surgeon General.
He previously worked as assistant professor of anesthesiology at Indiana University and is now a vice admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
Adams has written several academic papers and book chapters, including chapters in Anesthesia Student Survival Guide: A Case-based Approach.
It appears a bright future was always in the cards for Adams from a young age, coming from a family of educators.
A dark spot, however, comes from his younger brother Phillip, who has struggled with drug addiction and has been in and out of jail.
Phillip's first run-in with the law as an adult came in 2002, when he was arrested for marijuana possession. He was arrested for selling crack cocaine a few years later.
He pleaded guilty in March 2006 and was sentenced to 18 months in the county jail.
Adams has been vocal about his brother, speaking to STAT News about the struggles of dealing with a family member with addiction.
'I've watched my brother over and over and over again come out of incarceration with the best of intentions, determined that this is the time things are going to be different,' Adams previously told STAT.
'And then he goes back to a neighborhood where the people who were selling him the drugs are still around and the bad elements are still around, and he can't get a job, or he gets a job that's paying minimum wage and he can't even afford the transportation back and forth to the job, and ultimately he ends up in a situation where he throws his hands up and says, Why am I even trying?'
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