Systemic Racism

We’re Fighting COVID, Budget Cuts And ‘Murderous Racial Inequalities’

May 7, 2020 Danny Katch, The Indypendent. Resist! COVID-19, Pandemic, Systemic Racism, Worker Rights

Sean Petty is a pediatric emergency room nurse at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx and the southern regional director for the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA). In mid-March, he spoke to The Indypendent’s Danny Katch about how the coming coronavirus spike would overwhelm a public hospital system that had been decimated by budget cuts and closures. The subsequent weeks proved his predictions correct. The official virus death toll in New York City is over 18,000 as of this writing, a number that includes dozens of health care workers. But Petty and his fellow nurses have also organized themselves into powerful political actors who have leveraged their moral authority to demand more personal protective equipment (PPE) and other resources from local and national officials.

In A Pandemic, Health Inequities Are Even Deadlier

April 23, 2020 Tracey L Rogers, Otherwords. Educate! COVID-19, health, Health disparity, Systemic Racism

There’s an old saying in the black community I’ve heard my parents and grandparents repeat many times: “When white people catch a cold, black people catch pneumonia.” I can’t help but recall that old adage as demographic data comes out showing alarmingly disproportionate rates of infection and death among Americans of color in the coronavirus pandemic. As Vox reports, “Black and Latino Americans get infected with COVID-19 at alarmingly high rates, and more are dying than we would expect based on their share of the population.” In states like Michigan, for example, where black people make up only 12 percent of the population, they account for at least 40 percent of COVID-19-related deaths. So why are black people succumbing to the virus at higher rates than whites?

COVID-19: The Symptom Of The Capitalist Disease

April 21, 2020 Black Alliance for Peace. Resist! COVID-19, Health disparity, Systemic Racism, White Supremacy

The global capitalist system has produced fabulous wealth and so-called “development” for a handful of nations and their citizens along with degrading and dehumanizing poverty, violence and war on the vast majority of humanity. Here are some figures: 80 percent of humanity lives on less than $10 per day 30,000 children die every day from the effects of poverty, primarily lack of clean water and access to healthcare 62 individuals own more wealth than 3.5 billion people—half the world’s population This is the reality of a global system developed after the marauding European powers grew rich and powerful through the invasion of the Americas in 1492 as well as the enslavement of Africans and genocide committed against the people of the Americas. In the European settler-colony that became the United States of America, systematic brutality and structural violence were embedded in the economic relations and social institutions of the state.

Coronavirus, Militarism And The End Of An Illusion

April 3, 2020 the Black Alliance for Peace, Black Agenda Report. Educate! American Exceptionalism, COVID-19, Health Care, Systemic Racism

Coronavirus and second economic collapse in just ten years should finally put to rest the fairy-tale of U.S. Exceptionalism. Trump’s “Make America Great” and Obama’s “U.S. Exceptionalism” are slogans that reflect an ongoing commitment to the normalized assumption of white racial and civilizational superiority. The idea that the territory that became the United States, and its settler population, were specially anointed by a god who gave them providence over the land and the Indigenous people is so ingrained in the national imagination that its extension to rationalize and justify U.S. imperialist policies was seamless. The U.S. over the years shamelessly boasted of its “greatness” and being number one in all things, including having the best healthcare system in the world.

Close The Workhouse Campaign To Stop The War Against Black People

October 23, 2019 the Close the Workhouse Campaign. Resist! Ferguson, Justice System, Mass Incarceration, Systemic Racism

The Close the Workhouse campaign aims to attack mass incarceration, without legitimizing or justifying the continued caging of people as punishment. We call for the closure of the Medium Security Institute, better known in St. Louis as the Workhouse, an end to wealth based pretrial detention, and the reinvestment of the money used to cage poor people and Black people into rebuilding the most impacted neighborhoods in this region. The Workhouse is part and parcel of a racist and predatory system of mass incarceration that grew directly out of slavery and Jim Crow and works to perpetuate this shameful legacy in America. The story of the Workhouse illustrates this oppressive history. The campaign is a collaboration of the individuals subjected to incarceration at the Workhouse and lawyers and activists engaged on the issue.

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