BIPOC are disproportionately affected by COVID-19, and yet account for nearly half of all essential workers.
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The email onreparationsand the email onConfederate symbolsgot some people riled.
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Theres also a similar wealth gap between white Americans and other non-white populations.
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According to theEconomic Policy Institute, nearly 70 percent of essential workers do not have a college degree.
Thirty percent of essential workers have some college or a high school diploma.
One in 10 have less than a high school diploma.
Black people are twice as likely tolack health insurancecompared with their white counterparts.
These challenges affect every essential worker from every ethnic background, regardless of race.
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This week Im addressing less questions, more accusations, that have come in.
My white ancestors had a lot of hardships when they came to America, too!
Why dont they get reparations?
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Remember that acknowledging harm against one person doesnt invalidate the harm against another.
I never owned a slave.
My tax-paying dollars should not have to support a Black person.
First off, from my understanding, there is no formal proposal for an economic model for reparations.
Yesterdays call to action was to encourage the task force to be created, not to empty anyones pocketbooks.
This is a form of otheringdistancing oneself from the harm that has happened to eschew accountability.
Black people wont know what to do with the money.
Theyll spend it on drugs and alcohol.
Im not even going to argue against this racist stereotype because I dont have the patience.
That money wont even solve racism in America, or pay for all that pain.
Yep, this is true.
We cant solve racism in America with a paycheck.
Reparations isnt to solve racism, its to reduce the economic impact of it.
But again, does that mean it shouldnt happen at all?
Consider why you feel that blocking reparations helps move the movement forward.
A lot of good men died for the Confederacy.
This is a form of deflection.
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