Race and Coronavirus: The political implications of dual pandemics

By Pati Navalta

As Americans across the country marked a subdued Fourth of July weekend in the face of surging COVID-19 cases and a national call for racial justice, President Donald Trump declared that 99% of COVID-19 cases are “totally harmless” and referred to protesters as “angry mobs” and “Marxists, anarchists, agitators and looters” who “tear down our statues, erase our history, indoctrinate our children [and] trample on our freedoms.”