Month: April 2020

 

Well, as a black Man living through this Pandemic, I’ve had no problems with wearing the mask so far.

 

NEW YORK (AP) — Democratic lawmakers want police departments to be vigilant about any racially biased policing during the coronavirus pandemic, as people in communities of color express fears of being profiled while wearing masks or other face coverings in public.

In a letter sent Friday to Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray, Sen. Kamala Harris of California and other Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee urged federal law enforcement agencies to provide anti-bias training and guidance to police officers. The officers may increasingly encounter masked residents as the nation weighs a gradual reopening of the economy in the coming weeks, the senators said.

Source: Senators Fear Black Americans In Face Masks Will Be Exposed To Racial Bias | HuffPost

Source: Pittsburgh billionaire donates $4.2M to help hospitals that serve black communities

Because humans are fundamentally social creatures. We are not, contrary to popular American belief, merely rugged individuals. If we were, we wouldn’t mind isolation the way we so obviously do after a month or so of sheltering-in-place and following stay-at-home orders amid a global pandemic.

Source: Pandemic-ing While White – Tim Wise – Medium

Small businesses can now apply for $350 billion in forgivable loans as part of the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill.

Source: 43% of small businesses say they’ll be forced to close permanently if they don’t get help soon, survey says – MarketWatch

In Rio’s poorest favelas, where people live in overcrowded conditions and lack proper sanitation, they are bracing for the worst. Buba Aguiar is an activist in Acari who is taking matters into her own hands, soliciting online donations to buy food parcels and basic coronavirus kit – soap, masks – for her struggling neighbours who cannot afford to stop working and stay at home

Source: Bolsonaro won’t help with coronavirus, so Brazil’s favelas are helping themselves – video | World news | The Guardian

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Coronavirus’s economic danger is exponentially greater than its health risks to the public.

Source: Coronavirus will bankrupt more people than it kills — and that’s the real global emergency

Some people have been brainwashed by racism so much that even the thought of a black person having ANY unique skills or ANY supreme circumstance is blasphemous. It’s easier for some people to believe that all wise and mysterious intergalactic creatures from space came and built the wonders of the world rather then the black people who’ve been civilized and civilizing on this planet for millions of years.

Source: “Aliens” Didn’t Build The Pyramids Or Other Ancient Wonders, It Was Black People

Over the 20th century, black people in the U.S. were dispossessed of 12 million acres of land. Half of that loss — 6 million acres — occurred over just two decades, from 1950 to 1969, a period largely associated with the civil rights struggle. This mass land dispossession, which affected 98% of black agricultural land owners, is part of the pattern of institutional racism and discrimination that has contributed to the racial wealth gap in the United States. Many of the driving forces behind this land theft were legal and originated in federal policies, as documented by Vann Newkirk, staff writer at The Atlantic. His latest piece for the magazine is the September cover story: “The Great Land Robbery: The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms.”

Source: The Great Land Robbery: How Federal Policies Dispossessed Black Americans of Millions of Acres | Democracy Now!

As President Donald Trump pushes for an end to the nationwide social distancing practices that health professionals say are essential to saving lives during the coronavirus outbreak, incredibly wealthy Americans are eager to get employees back to work ― and some say they’re OK with people dying if that’s what it takes.

Source: Billionaires Want People Back At Work, Even If It Kills Them