Like just about every other damn thing, this is going to (continue to) disproportionately kill and impoverish black people and that fact would be more prominent in our public conversations about it if gatekeepers of elite discourse weren’t so white.
In all the news reports and reporter tweets you’ve seen hyping protests that represent a radical minority, have you seen a single one pointing out that the protesters are almost all white and the people who will suffer and die if they get their way are disproportionately black?
It’s kind of an important detail, you know?
Since I know reporters prefer to view the world through a horse race lens, try this on: A deeply racist Republican Party is advocating an approach to the pandemic that will disproportionately kill black people in an election year.
I *know* a lot of white people know this, and I *know* a lot of white people don’t like it, and if that’s you, I’d ask you to think about why you aren’t absolutely *enraged* about it.
