Next #FreedomRoadPodcast episode, recorded in collaboration with @PantsuitPolitic! Listen in on both platforms #tomorrow as Lisa, Beth and Sarah talk COVID-19, sci-fi movies canaries in mines and one hard question: What will alliance w/ WOC require of White women in 2020? 
NOTE: #COVID-19 stats by race were released last week. The stats make three things clear: 1) Media reporting has been white-centered 2) The impact of COVID is racialized and 3) response to COVID is being politicized. #WisconsinPrimary #HealthDisparities Imprisoned w/ Coronavirus.
To understand what’s happening in Wisconsin, check out this fabulous thread by @PantsuitPolitic:
What is happening in Wisconsin is nothing less than De-Facto Voter Suppression. #CoronavirusPollTax #JimCrow
We knew early on that #COVID19 was more likely to kill pp with other co-morbidities, like:
* High blood pressure
* Diabetes
* Asthma
All of these conditions are more prevalent in communities of color—esp Black communities because of #EnvironmentalRacism.
* High blood pressure
* Diabetes
* Asthma
All of these conditions are more prevalent in communities of color—esp Black communities because of #EnvironmentalRacism.
#EnvironmentalRacism looks like:
* Highways cutting through our neighborhoods—particulates in air causing high rates of asthma.
* Fewer supermarkets in our communities. Less access to vegetables and healthy food.
* Targeted fast-food restaurant zoning in our communities.
* Highways cutting through our neighborhoods—particulates in air causing high rates of asthma.
* Fewer supermarkets in our communities. Less access to vegetables and healthy food.
* Targeted fast-food restaurant zoning in our communities.
New stats are clarifying the racially disparate impact of #COVID19 as a result of the disparate prevalence of co-morbidities in Black communities.
nytimes.com/2020/04/07/us/…
nytimes.com/2020/04/07/us/…
And then there is what is happening in jails and prisons across the country.
Some state are releasing non-violent offenders, but many more are NOT.
nytimes.com/2020/03/30/nyr…
Some state are releasing non-violent offenders, but many more are NOT.
nytimes.com/2020/03/30/nyr…
We recorded this episode on March 19, before the racialized impact of #Coronavirus was clear. Now it is. The virus itself does not discriminate. But the virus’s impact in Black communities is clarifying the impact of decades of targeted structural racism.
The alarm is ringing. #Election2020 is an existential question of survival for our families and communities. The question remains: Will we find enough allies among white women?
#whitenessandwomanhood #freedomroadpodcast @FreedomRoadus @PantsuitPolitic
#whitenessandwomanhood #freedomroadpodcast @FreedomRoadus @PantsuitPolitic
