Have you seen the post? It lists some of the names of Black people who were recently killed or experienced racism while doing everyday things like walking home. It’s incredibly powerful and I’m sure I’m not the only one that cried reading it.There may be no other country more oriented to the individual than the US. Our laws and systems are designed to uphold individual rights and freedoms. We believe individuals decide for themselves, work for themselves, determine their success, or failure themselves.
COVID-19 is now being ingested into that system of individualism.
Read MoreAs a country distracted by a focus on equality for generations, we have—often unknowingly—established systems of inequity, built on biases that grant systemic advantage to some, but not all. As many diseases do, COVID-19 has entered our systems, exposed those already-diseased areas of inequity—particularly for people of color—and amplified them.
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