Disproportionate death rates for minorities in the UK serve as a reminder of what is at stake with racism. But we must also connect the issue to the plight facing black and brown people across the globe, who suffer the deadly consequences of the pandemic of racism every single day.
across most illnesses and conditions. Anyone paying attention would have predicted the disproportionate impact of Covid-19.
We are also more likely to be in key worker roles and in the service industry, and therefore exposed to the illness. Minorities are also over-represented in the ranks of those suffering from economic hardship, which isOne of the continued distortions of racism is to see race through the lens of biology. Disproportionate deaths from Covid-19 is a social issue, not a genetic one.
There is simply no framework to understand the structural inequality at the root of the problem. We deal with racism as a token issue, something that can be dealt with by a report, rolling out some token figure to assure us that we are being taken seriously.
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