Podcast Assignment

COVID-19 is Exposing US Racism in a Stark New Way with Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones, Democracy Now 

The podcast I decided to choose was “COVID-19 is  Exposing US Racism in a Stark New Way ” and I’ve been wanting to look into this topic more often. There has been a lot of talk lately on the news about how COVID-19 is exposing the US to racism. Most of the time when it comes to big dramatic events like COVID-19 for some reason there are always other races affected the most than whites. I think this shows how racism will never disappear in my eyes. Racism has been around for over 200 years and now in 2020 with the world being more diverse than ever before in human history for some reason they will always be talking about racism. While I was listening to this Podcast and hearing just the data that was represented of how many blacks and other races that have gotten in low income areas. Places like Illinois, Michihan, New York, Chicago, and Louisiana are stated that most COVID-19 death tolls have come from African Americans! To me I  thought it is because probably those people are not access to resources like others or just people that just din;r care and want to be outside, but the way the podcast explains it seems that reports wanted to make this a racial thing. Also, one thing that interested me was how they gave a lot of news about New York specifically because we are the epicenter for all of this. Also, the podcast was explain reasons that Afrcan American have a lot of death tolls caused by COVID-19 because of the reason that those people living in racially segregated communities meaning that these people are struggling to get things such as food and those communities can have people with other disease such as diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma. Also, another thing is that in the beginning of the podcast they were talking about Andrew Cuomo and how he is taking authority. Meaning that he is being a great leader for New York and doing his best. Differently on how some way any situation can involve racism. An example I can see that started this talk about about how COVID-19 is exposing US of racism is when Trump called COVID-19 the “chinese virus” and not only that shows a so call leader we have, but shows how politicians don’t know what they are talking about when it comes to COVID-19. I believe scientists and doctors should be the only people informing the people about COVID-19 because they are the most truthfully propellant when it comes to these situations. I would recommend fellow peers to watch this podcast because it opens my eyes differently. 

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/9/camara_phyllis_jones_coronavirus_race_disparities