{"id":152719,"date":"2024-02-02T10:15:25","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T15:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=152719"},"modified":"2024-02-01T19:49:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T00:49:51","slug":"representative-pressley-accuses-walgreens-of-racism-for-leaving-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=152719","title":{"rendered":"Representative Pressley accuses Walgreens of racism for leaving neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Walgreens decided to close a pharmacy in a Boston neighborhood. This neighborhood happens to be, according to Representative Pressley, 85 percent Black and Latino. Normally when an operation shuts down, the possibility exists that the decision-makers concluded that the costs were higher than the benefits. However, Representative Pressley made it appear that Walgreens made this decision for other reasons while leaving a lot of people without important medical needs.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“Mr. Speaker, Walgreens is planning to close yet another pharmacy in the Massachusetts 7th. This time on Warren Street in Roxbury, a community that is 85 percent Black and Latino. This closure is a part of a larger trend of abandoning low income communities like the previous closures in Mattapan and Hyde Park, both in the Massachusetts 7th,” Pressley began.<\/p>\n

“When a Walgreens leaves a neighborhood they disrupt the entire community and they take with them baby formula, diapers, asthma inhalers, life-saving medications, and, of course, jobs. These closures are not arbitrary and they are not innocent. They are life-threatening acts of racial and economic discrimination,” she stated.<\/p>\n

Pressley noted how she, along with fellow Massachusetts Democrats Senator Ed Markey and Senator Elizabeth Warren, had demanded answers from Walgreens CEO Tim Wentworth.<\/p>\n

Last month, the Democratic lawmakers protested the store’s closure with locals in the neighborhood, arguing that vulnerable seniors in the low-income neighborhood would not be able to fill critical prescriptions, Boston25 News reported.<\/p>\n

Pressley slammed the pharmaceutical company for not giving customers in the neighborhood enough notice. She accused Walgreens of being hypocritical in their commitment to health equity.<\/p>\n

“Why was there no community input? No adequate notice to customers? And no transition resources to prevent gaps in health care? Shame on you, Walgreens. Having a website with talking points about health equity and underserved communities is not enough. Walgreens is a multi-billion-dollar corporation that needs to put their money where their mouth is and stop divesting from Black and brown communities,” she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has additional information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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