Do the Right Thing: Systemic Racism and Covid

Covid might have been the tinderbox that allowed the George Floyd protests to ignite, but the here and now of racism are the black and brown folks that are disproportionately getting sick and dying of Covid today. Right now. The white liberal response is to hashtag the eff out of this situation, but in fact we should be pressuring officials right this minute to get more testing and tracing in low-income communities, more education of health behaviors, PPE, and protecting families that aready are infected.

It’s not too late to do the right thing. While Instagram activity is crazy high, black and brown people are still getting infected with Covid, right this minute. Let’s reform our police departments, and educate our parents, and set city budgets right, but what can we do right this minute to take down the silent killer that already taken 56 Durham lives and who knows how many more until a vaccine is found and administered.