BBC – The city council of Asheville, North Carolina, has unanimously voted to give financial reparations to black people amid a surge in debate about the issue. Reparations – financial compensation to the descendants of enslaved people – have long been hotly contested. Asheville becomes one of the first US cities to approve reparations, joiningContinueContinue reading “This Week in White Supremacy #133: North Carolina’s Asheville unanimously approves reparations for slavery”
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This Week in White Supremacy #132: The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus
The New York Times : ‘The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus’ – Early numbers had shown that Black and Latino people were being harmed by the virus at higher rates. But the new federal data — made available after The New York Times sued the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionContinueContinue reading “This Week in White Supremacy #132: The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus”
This Week in White Supremacy #131: Quadriplegic Black Man with COVID-19 Killed by Hospital after Doctors Decided He Had ‘No Quality of Life’
Steven Spohn on Twitter: On June 11th, Michael Hickson, a quadriplegic black man with COVID-19 was killed by a hospital in Austin Texas. Doctors decided he had “no quality of life” and was not worth spending the resources to save. The conversation between his doctor and his wife was caught on audio https://bit.ly/3dYSP4Z THE GOODContinueContinue reading “This Week in White Supremacy #131: Quadriplegic Black Man with COVID-19 Killed by Hospital after Doctors Decided He Had ‘No Quality of Life’”