Previously on SBPDL: State of Michigan Launches “Coronavirus Task Force on Racial Disparities” to Find a Way to Blame White People for Disproportionate Rate of Blacks Dying of COVID-19/China Virus

The shift is happening before our eyes.

As a disproportionate amount of black people die of the Coronavirus across the nation (attributable to genetic differences and, more importantly, poor individual decisions concerning health collectively propelling the death rate higher for blacks), we are going to learn COVID-19 had to be racist.

Right? Because race is just a social construct, so there’s absolutely no reason – all things being equal – why blacks are disproportionately dying unless you factor in white racism.

We went from “blacks are immune from the Coronavirus because of their Wakanda- DNA” to the “Coronavirus is a racial weapon deliberately targeting blacks” mighty quickly. [Baltimore City plans coronavirus ad campaign to combat myth that African American residents are immune, Baltimore Sun, April 14, 2020]

Well, in Chicago, we now have a black columnist blaming both high rates of black gun violence and disproportionate rates of Coronavirus deaths in the black community to white racism/white privilege/implicit bias/structural inequality/prejudice within the healthcare system/redlining. [Commentary: COVID-19 and gun violence are devastating black Chicagoans, Chicago Tribune, April 10, 2020]:

I was a guest on a national news show recently, discussing the racial disparities in COVID-19-related deaths. Data from several locations show that black Americans are dying from the disease at rates greater than the general population. This includes Chicago where despite comprising 30% of the population, blacks represent 68% of the deaths from the coronavirus.