The coronavirus is striking black and brown people disproportionately, a prologue for the rest of America if nothing more is done
, we need to include redlining, voter suppression, and gentrification among those factors. But those problems predate Trump, even though he and his underlings have worked consciously to exacerbate racial gaps in wealth and advantage. The issue is the lack of solutions. We have, in essence, lost four years to a federal government that has worsened America’s enduring institutional flaws, reinforcing policies that have ghettoized black Americans into areas that lower our life expectancies.
Pence referenced the “historic challenges in the health care” of African American communities without hinting at solutions. The implication is that the comorbidities that exist in those communities are somehow permanent, or even worse, inherent to our genetics. The vice president can urge black folks to “now more than ever, practice the guidelines” of physical isolations as recommended by the White House and CDC.
If our federal and state governments are allowed to ignore the systemic forces that led to COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on black Americans, they will continue planting the seeds in the soil for a false narrative, similar to those conservatives spread about “black-on-black” crime — or about LGBTQ communities about HIV and AIDS, another pandemic that hasDr. Anthony Fauci called out that kind of disparagement during Tuesday’s briefing, after Trump departed early.
“I see a similarity here because health disparities have always existed for the African American community,”. “It’s not that they’re getting infected more often, it’s that when they do get infected, their underlying medical conditions, the diabetes, the hypertension, the obesity, the asthma, those are the kind of things that wind them up in the ICU and ultimately give them a higher death rate.”
I was born in a major city, living in a heavily black neighborhood, with asthma — one of the “underlying conditions” Fauci listed. I didn’t inherit it from either of my parents. Our surroundings often shape our futures: Much like urban pollution and asthma, the higher complication rate from diabetes correlates with food insecurity. Added to that medical danger is the possibility of discrimination when we actually heed government guidelines about covering our faces in public.
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