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Watching people flip out at reporting on the racial disparities of covid-19 is yet another reminder of how so many do not want to be reminded of inequality and the toll it take. So I’ll share some of the best stories on this topic.
From @newsbysamuels dispatch from Wisconsin, a state that is 6 percent black but where black residents represent nearly half of the covid-19 fatalities https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/covid-19-is-ravaging-black-communities-a-milwaukee-neighborhood-is-figuring-out-how-to-fight-back/2020/04/06/1ae56730-7714-11ea-ab25-4042e0259c6d_story.html
Powerful line from @aaronlmorrison: "Historic failures in government responses to disasters and emergencies, medical abuse, neglect and exploitation have jaded generations of black people into a distrust of public institutions." https://apnews.com/5aa41953a211049f53a62df18b6f7b87
A key excerpt from @propublica about how generations of inequality and discrimination have a devastating snowball effect https://www.propublica.org/article/early-data-shows-african-americans-have-contracted-and-died-of-coronavirus-at-an-alarming-rate
