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The Racial Disparities of Coronavirus Point Yet Again to the Need for Reparations
['William A. Darity Jr.', 'A. Kirsten Mullen', 'For The Inquirer', 'Jeff Roberson']
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One striking reality that exemplifies the disparity: Three white billionaires, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett, hold more wealth than 80% of black Americans. The vast imbalance in black and white wealth is the most pronounced measure of cumulative economic damages wreaked on African Americans by slavery, legal segregation, white terrorism (consider lynchings during the Jim Crow period), vast overincarceration, and ongoing discrimination in housing, employment, policing, credit markets, and health care. Consequently, blacks discriminately face either a greater risk of continued employment in jobs with high degrees of likelihood of exposure to the coronavirus, or outright job loss.