'Police violence and the impact of the pandemic are two sides of the same coin.' (via publicintegrity)
by the Economic Policy Institute states that racial and economic inequality have made Black workers—who comprise about 12 percent of the workforce—most vulnerable to the coronavirus.
This racial wealth gap means that African Americans are less prepared than whites to weather the COVID-19 storm. While African Americans experienced economic gains over the past few decades, the pandemic—like the “People understand the lynching of a Black man on video to be linked to a movement where overt white supremacy is surging,” said Eric Tang, a University of Texas at Austin associate professor whose work focuses on race and social movements in urban America. “At the same time, what we see is the way in which this unrest intersects with broader issues, just as we saw in the late 1960s when unrest tied to housing, unemployment and income inequality ripped through Black ghettos.
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