(Snippets from the frontline)
COVID-19: People of color
The statistics are coming in, and the trend is people of color in our country are effected disproportionally by the coronavirus. Is this viral prejudice? Of course not.
It does say economic background and lack of healthcare opportunity might be playing a role. “Might”? Of course it is. This pandemic has lifted the shroud over differences that still exist in our society. Prejudice used to be in the open, but now underlying effects still ooze to the surface.
This is America, 2020. We are not perfect, yet over my lifetime, I have seen social improvement…ever so slowly. Once the pandemic is in the past, we should examine the persistent unequal circumstance of some in our country.
We are still an evolving nation, and must continue to move forward toward equality and opportunity, despite the fact injustice is not always obvious.
As Martin Luther King Jr. once said: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Gene Uzawa Dorio, M.D.
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