Don’t forget the slave codes!Black Americans were forced into ‘social distancing’ long before the coronavirus
Speaking about the COVID-19 pandemic at Sunday’s Democratic presidential debate, former Vice President Joe Biden implored, “This is a crisis. We’re at war with the virus.” Without question, we have to treat the situation like the acute emergency it is. However, if we don’t address structural inequalities in this country, recovery will be uneven and enduring. As officials implore the nation to practice “social distancing,” we should remember that, throughout history, it is that same concept which has made some Americans more vulnerable to the physical and economic effects of the coronavirus, as well as other epidemics and disasters.
To mitigate the spread of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending social distancing measures: avoiding mass gatherings and maintaining at least six feet of distance from other people. For decades, however, Black people and Native Americans have been subject to a different kind of social distancing in America: segregation, discrimination, and devaluation.
These policies, which were built on a racial hierarchy, isolated Black and indigenous people closer to polluters and in areas more susceptible to natural disasters. History has shown that social distancing through racist housing policies such as redlining extracted wealth from communities of color, eliminating a crucial buffer against the financial shock of a crisis such as today’s. COVID-19 doesn’t discriminate, but U.S. policy has—in ways that now leave Black and brown people more vulnerable to effects of the pandemic.
Segregated housing and schools are manifestations of the United States’ long history of legal discrimination, which have ramifications for our current crisis. Redlining was the practice born of the federally backed Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, which outlined areas with sizable Black populations in red ink on maps as a warning to mortgage lenders, effectively isolating Black people in areas that would suffer lower levels of investment than their white counterparts.
Far from a cure, this form of social distancing created a social disease that has made many of us sick—literally. According to a 2019 study, residential segregation makes Black communities more susceptible to hospital closings. Another study published by Medical Care Research and Review in 2014 found that an increase in the concentration of Black people in a neighborhood is associated with a corresponding decrease in the availability of surgical equipment.
Meanwhile, social isolation through policy discrimination has extracted significant wealth from Black families. According to the Federal Reserve’s most recent numbers in 2016, white families had the highest median family wealth at $171,000. Black and Latino or Hispanic families had $17,600 and $20,700, respectively—making these household far more susceptible to pandemics of this scale.
According to my own research with David Harshbarger and Gallup’s Jonathan Rothwell, homes of similar quality in neighborhoods with similar amenities are worth 23% less in Black-majority neighborhoods compared to those with very few or no Black residents. After accounting for factors such as housing quality, neighborhood quality, education, and crime, owner-occupied homes in Black neighborhoods are undervalued by $48,000 on average, amounting to a whopping $156 billion that homeowners would have received if their homes were priced at market rate.
“For life expectancy, money matters,” according to the Harvard Gazette. Wealthier people live longer—but the COVID-19 pandemic reveals that our fates are more intertwined than we think. Due in part to a lack of access to managerial positions, Black workers are overrepresented in occupations that require face-to-face contact, such as health care support, personal care, and protective services, as well as in gig-economy jobs. While business in these sectors has been rising during the pandemic, the nature of these jobs places workers at greater risk for contracting the virus, with many employers refusing to offer paid sick leave. While white-collar workers telecommute, receive paid time off, or are otherwise able to both socially distance and remain financially secure, the most vulnerable members of society are forced to choose between their work and their health.
This is a structural problem created by the social distancing of people of color—and the more we put these workers at risk of COVID-19, the longer the entire country will suffer. The proliferation of the coronavirus forces us to see the inherent connections we share in a way that our public policy has not always recognized. Individual recovery is contingent upon how much we collectively live by the principle of being “all in this together.” If undocumented residents are sick, the country’s citizens will be as well. If Black and Latino or Hispanic people suffer from COVID-19’s effects, so will Asian American and white people.
We are at war with not just the virus, but our past mistakes. Now is the time to create the kind of social safety net that America’s segregated communities never received. As my Brookings colleague Ryan Nunn wrote, we need a new plan for paid sick leave, policies for food security, targeted support for small businesses, loan forgiveness, and greater increases in unemployment insurance.
If we don’t address the discrimination that is baked into current policy, efforts to address this pandemic will be undermined by the past practices that led to such inequality. Even as we heed the CDC’s advice on social distancing, policymakers need to see opportunities to bring historically disenfranchised communities closer to the systems they’ve been excluded from. The war against the virus and the war against structural racism can be fought at the same time.
Social Engineering!!! Interesting information!!
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Don’t forget the slave codes!
And 400 years later the madness continues. But we are progressing according to the profane
Doesn’t look like it but the lines are drawn now.
You damn right!!! Well, let it begin!!
There are errors in the crack story, but everyone knew that Freeway Rick was being provided crack via the government. I used to DJ a bunch of parties for him in the 80's and he was off the chains with it.
The CIA used dope money made in the hood to fund weapons purchases. They also go money from Congress to fight the very "drug crises" they were creating.
Around this time, black helicopters used to spray the hood down with what they said was "malathion." They said it was to eliminate fruit flies, but the orchards in Cali are nowhere near the hood.
That was the creepiest shit I've ever seen. Driving south on the 110 at night and seeing rows of helicopters spraying mist on the east side. From Gage to Imperial I saw them.
www.latimes.com
This was the cover story. They sprayed the whole hood mayne.
The CIA used dope money made in the hood to fund weapons purchases. They also go money from Congress to fight the very "drug crises" they were creating.
Around this time, black helicopters used to spray the hood down with what they said was "malathion." They said it was to eliminate fruit flies, but the orchards in Cali are nowhere near the hood.
That was the creepiest shit I've ever seen. Driving south on the 110 at night and seeing rows of helicopters spraying mist on the east side. From Gage to Imperial I saw them.
Spraying Zone for Medfly Is Expanded
Three more communities will be sprayed from the air Monday night with the pesticide malathion in an effort to halt the spread of the Mediterranean fruit fly east and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, officials announced Friday.
www.latimes.com
This was the cover story. They sprayed the whole hood mayne.
There are errors in the crack story, but everyone knew that Freeway Rick was being provided crack via the government. I used to DJ a bunch of parties for him in the 80's and he was off the chains with it.
The CIA used dope money made in the hood to fund weapons purchases. They also go money from Congress to fight the very "drug crises" they were creating.
Around this time, black helicopters used to spray the hood down with what they said was "malathion." They said it was to eliminate fruit flies, but the orchards in Cali are nowhere near the hood.
That was the creepiest shit I've ever seen. Driving south on the 110 at night and seeing rows of helicopters spraying mist on the east side. From Gage to Imperial I saw them.
Spraying Zone for Medfly Is Expanded
Three more communities will be sprayed from the air Monday night with the pesticide malathion in an effort to halt the spread of the Mediterranean fruit fly east and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, officials announced Friday.
This was the cover story. They sprayed the whole hood mayne.
Damn bruh!! Interesting information and thank you for sharing that!! We gotta get our people to snap outta the dream and see the hijacking taking place!!
It's been going on forever. There is an actual BBC documentary that speaks on the mind control used in advertising and how cigarette companies got women to take up smoking. They figured half of the population wasn't using their products, and they hired a psychologist to help them. This was turn of the century
They put the shit in plain sight to keep it hidden.
It's easily digestible for the masses, no need for a foil hat. Gotta start them with baby food and titty milk first.
Bruh, you know how long I've been talking and postin on here, how the truth is hidden right in front of our noses??
Anyway bruh, great video!! That vid explains how this colony been pulling off all this madness!! With the introduction of the digital signal on the hdtv, the things they can push onto the subconscious mind is unbelievable!! I'll watch this whole video!!
@LordSinister has started to see the light 
it is possible for brothas to change which gives me hope that we will have a chance to survive this in-fighting.
it is possible for brothas to change which gives me hope that we will have a chance to survive this in-fighting.
@LordSinister has started to see the light
it is possible for brothas to change which gives me hope that we will have a chance to survive this in-fighting.
Right on write on!!! He dropped a good video and sum good gems!!
Bro, I've been woke.@LordSinister has started to see the light
it is possible for brothas to change which gives me hope that we will have a chance to survive this in-fighting.
I lived through this shit. I travel the planet and see this shit.
I never bought into the programming and have always been an outsider. I question everything.
I also know that 95% of the people have purchased E tickets for this shit, and are part of it. Imagine if you were shrinking, but the entire world was also shrinking at the same rate. Is it easier to believe we're shrinking even though you can't feel it.
That's what the people are against.
Brotha, we're surrounded by a lot of people that have bought into the programming and indoctrination!!
Link?
Give me a few mins.. I'm looking for the PDF file.. If not, I'll put up the link to take u to the site
Try this.. If it don't work let me know.
The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations : John D. Coleman : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations: Shaping the Moral, Spiritual, Cultural, Political and Economic Decline of the United States
archive.org
Thank you Brotha.Try this.. If it don't work let me know.
The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations : John D. Coleman : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations: Shaping the Moral, Spiritual, Cultural, Political and Economic Decline of the United Statesarchive.org
These think tanks are the ones creating the policies and they know the plans years in advance. They are basically a shadow government but the masses don’t even know it. Great call out.
Your right bruh, they are creating damn near every policy! And not any of them are elected to come up with these policies!! They pick the type of music that's played, the show's on tv, the commercials we view, the style of clothes we wear and the list goes on and on!! But, ain't nobody listening! But I keep putting this information out here, sooner or later our people gotta start listening and seeing what's going on around us!!
Do not forget that they are trying to normalize faggotry.
Good point!! They are hitting us on every level with that homo & transsexual bs!! I wonder why they are pushing so hard with that homo stuff!! Anyway, this world is getting strange by the day..