The Congresswoman held a forum via Zoom on Saturday night called 'How COVID19 Disproportionately Impacts the Black Community.'
Representative Rashida Tlaib said during a forum held on Zoom on Saturday night that the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic against black communities is being dismissed.
"They call it hot spots," the congresswoman said."You mean the African American communities. I want them to say it." "A lot of the brokenness, a lot of the economic divide, structural racism, the systems that are in place that have been oppressed our black neighbors for so long existed prior to the pandemic," she said."Now it's so evident in the numbers."
"And now, it's just happening more bluntly, in a more acute way. And yet people are operating with callous disregard about black lives and black bodies."Rep. Rashida Tlaib speaks during a press conference preceding a House Oversight and Reform subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill on July 10, 2019 in Washington, DC., Pressley added:"We can't keep up with the firehose of dehumanizing, demoralizing, traumatic things that are happening.
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