{"id":49356,"date":"2021-02-22T19:44:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T19:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/?p=268449"},"modified":"2021-02-22T19:44:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T19:44:19","slug":"the-pandemics-of-racism-and-covid-19-are-a-deadly-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/22\/the-pandemics-of-racism-and-covid-19-are-a-deadly-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"The pandemics of racism and COVID-19 are a deadly mix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"The pandemics of racism and COVID-19 are a deadly mix\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mUn-3-KnIb8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic highlights deep racial inequities in wages, health, and vaccination rates\u2014but it&#8217;s a century of racist public policy that laid the foundation for these disparities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Lawrence Brown, author of &#8220;The Black Butterfly,&#8221; joins TRNN&#8217;s Jaisal Noor to discuss the disproportionate harm caused by the coronavirus pandemic, and argues that radical action is needed to address the current crisis and damage exacerbated by economic recessions.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/the-pandemics-of-racism-and-covid-19-are-a-deadly-mix\">The pandemics of racism and COVID-19 are a deadly mix<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/\">The Real News Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/the-pandemics-of-racism-and-covid-19-are-a-deadly-mix\">The Real News Network<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A century of racist public policy laid the foundation for deep racial inequities in employment and vaccination rates in the U.S. pandemic response.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/the-pandemics-of-racism-and-covid-19-are-a-deadly-mix\">The pandemics of racism and COVID-19 are a deadly mix<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/\">The Real News Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5942,5585,372],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49357,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49356\/revisions\/49357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}