It’s unfortunate that far too many individual black people have pre-existing health problems (and fail to social distance), which collectively make this community more at-risk than whites, because just blaming some combination of white racism/segregation/redlining/historical legacy of slavery/Tuskegee Experiments will ensure billions of dollars are directed to the black community when the Coronavirus dust settles and recompense for the dead is tallied.

It’s a simple formula for ensuring the perpetuation of white guilt to maintain the status quo: if a disproportionate amount of black people suffer from some demonstrable malady (foreclosures, denial of loan, bad credit, low SAT/ACT scores, high incarceration rates, deaths via the Coronavirus), then it’s axiomatic white people/implicit bias/white privilege/ environmental racism/structural inequalities/the legacy of slavery/segregation/redlining is to blame.

Never, ever must we consider the collective individual actions/choices of blacks as the reason behind the problem, when the blanket of blame can easily fall over all white people. [Covid-19 is ravaging one of the country’s wealthiest black counties, Washington Post, April 27, 2020]:

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“A majority black county – perhaps the wealthiest majority black county in America – with elected/appointed black leaders providing governance to their black constituents is a hotbed for the Coronavirus, and The Washington Post has multiple writers contributing to a story bending over backward to blame white people for the crisis.

“If you look closely, they trot out the old food deserts trope, in what is supposed to be the wealthiest black county in America.

“This same scene is unfolding in heavily segregated cities across America (Chicago, Atlanta, Milwaukee, New Orleans, New York City), where black people are dying disproportionately from the Coronavirus. But if black communities are being ravaged disproportionately from the Coronavirus, doesn’t this confirm the opposite of the media attacks on white people for being behind the crisis?

“After all, white flight was the original social distancing.”

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