police violence and economic inequality stealing Black lives

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Published — June 5, 2020


Analysis: George Floyd, coronavirus and inequality stealing Black lives
Susan Smith Richardson

After months of a pandemic that has seen African Americans die at almost double their numbers in the U.S. population and generations of police and white supremacist violence against Black people, a mix of rage and despair is once again burning across the country.

The police violence and the impact of the pandemic are two sides of the same coin.
In a nation radically altered by the coronavirus, Floyd’s death reminds us that some things have not changed.

A new report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) states that racial and economic inequality have made Black workers, who comprise about 12 percent of the workforce, most vulnerable to the coronavirus. As of April, less than half of the adult Black population was employed. Many of those African Americans who were working are part of the army of low-paid essential workers, risking their lives for a paycheck. (Black women and Latinas are the backbone of this army.) And they are more likely to be uninsured, so they do not get medical care until they fall severely ill.


Yet here we are. George Floyd is dead. And millions of African Americans are unemployed.

The income and wealth divide between whites and Blacks amounts to an even more critical problem during the pandemic. White families hold five times as much cash in savings, checking, money market accounts, and other liquid assets as Black people, according to the EPI report. In 2018, median household income for whites was 70 percent higher than for Blacks.

This racial wealth gap means that African Americans are less prepared than whites to weather the COVID-19 storm


Several Black protesters have said, “If the police don’t get you, the coronavirus will.”


More than 50 years after the Kerner report, we cannot continue to separate police violence from racial and economic inequality. They are two sides of the same coin that is stealing Black lives.

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