COVID-19 is disproportionately devastating minority communities, in Britain and elsewhere. The pandemic is exposing broader inequalities, systemic injustice and official denial. Gary Younge. newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20… 1/5
COVID-19’s unequal impact: Because minority communities are more likely to be poor, and poor people are more likely to be vulnerable. To live in deprived neighbourhoods and to experience higher unemployment, higher poverty, lower incomes, and overcrowding than white people 2/5
These groups *do not* have culture or genetics in common. But they *do* share a common experience of povery, low pay and poor housing – and all the things that go with that, including ill health – that make them susceptible to coronavirus. And concentrations in risky jobs. 3/5
“These deaths are the collateral damage of British racism – the indirect consequence of decades of exclusion that have corralled black and Asian people into the kind of jobs, housing and health situations that would make us particularly vulnerable.” 4/5
In short: Racism can kill in far less dramatic ways and in far greater numbers than racial violence. “We can’t breathe”, by Gary Young, New Statesman: newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20… 5/5
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