experience of african-americans which include lived experiences of heart disease. i can imagine there are people watching right now who think wait a minute, didn t she ask a question about heart disease and social movement and race and identity? you know start emerging. why are we talking about that when we are talking something biological and medical? because health is politics by other means. health is a terrain, a space in which we struggle with access to resources. whether or not one is healthy has to do with access to resources. itis not what ann s book shows so well is it is about social justice and about how communities are trying to get access to the medical system. it s been historically segregated in american society. i think it s also about the class issues. the part of the john henry story that you didn t raise is he was a former slave. he s a former slave working in the context of sharecropping.
class issues keep hitting him and hitting him and he is never ready for it. he never expected to have to answer for these things. here he is with his response. this is the best he can say, i haven t seen this ad yet, they say it s pretty good. it s the first of the general election ads. it s about day one in the romney presidency. i want you to respond to this quickly, let s watch it. what would a romney presidency be like? day one. president romney immediately approves the keystone pipeline creating thousands of jobs obama blocked. he introduces tax cuts and reforms that reward job creators. romney replaces obama care with common sense health care reform. i m mitt romney, and i approve this message. it had a good beat to it, a