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Black Americans dying of Covid-19 at three times the rate of white people
- pmdulaney 6y agoThe insanity of America in 2020 is that someone needs to point out how insane this article is. There is no hint that blacks are being given inferior treatment relative to whites, but the implication is that this is the result of some systemic racism. Now it may be that part of the delta is due to the fact that so many of the brave doctors and nurses working in the COVID-19 wards are black. For that sacrifice I salute them -- along with their white, Hispanic, Asian, and Middle Eastern colleagues. Are any of you familiar with the Jewish people? They have suffered significant racism in the past few centuries. But if it were revealed by the statistics that American Jews were dying at higher than normal rates from COVID-19, the media would treat it as a medical conundrum, not as an instance of racism! Identity politics is an endless source of societal poison. It would be wonderful if we could lay it to rest in 2020. My prayers are for safety and protection and thriving for black Americans and all the rest of my fellow Americans.