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How Biden And Hawaii Could Address COVID-19 Disparities Among Pacific Islanders - Honolulu Civil Beat
How Biden And Hawaii Could Address COVID-19 Disparities Among Pacific Islanders
A report by a U.S. Civil Rights Commission advisory group outlined many ways in which the Biden administration as well as state and county leaders could help overcome the disparities. Reading time: 5 minutes.
Federal agencies should actively reach out to Pacific Islander communities who have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic in Hawaii and elsewhere, according to the Hawaii advisory group to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.
The group recently released a report that explores how and why Pacific Islanders caught COVID-19 at a rate four times greater than any other racial or ethnic group in Hawaii and concluded that President Joe Biden’s administration and Hawaii’s political leaders could do a lot more to help address the disparities.
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On a recent Friday evening, the rabbi asked a congregant to sing a traditional song based on Psalm 133, “Hinneh mah tov umah na im, Shevet achim gam yachad,” which means “Behold how good and how pleasing, to sit together in unity.” Except she wasn’t singing the tune as I learned it in the summer of 1948 at the age of seven. The rhythm and cadence I remembered was a version being sung in Israel, like many of the songs we learned that summer. For years we were fired by the Israeli example, by the kibbutzim or farms on which people shared everything, and by the struggle for independence. I grew up thrilled by their example and wanting to learn Hebrew the better to enjoy traveling there – until our Temple kicked me out because I‘d become a young critic of our Sunday school and refused to go.