SC Poor Peoples Campaign (#We Are Done Dying) & Racism in America During COVID-19 & Violence

This is an attempt to understand what's behind the current anger and rage in our Country. The horrific image of a white police officer crushing a black man beneath his knee, seemingly like a hunter posing over his prey, has outraged many across the nation and world who also feel the weight of racism bearing down on their necks. The state of mind that crushes a brother’s neck — as in the case of George Floyd in Minneapolis — or shoots a man jogging because of his skin color — as in the case of Ahmaud Arbery —  is the same mindset that sends black and brown and poor and low-income workers of all colors into the lethal path of the COVID-19 pandemic without needed protections, health care, and economic resources. It’s the same state of mind that causes the U.S. president to quote racists from the past when he tweets that “when the looting starts the shooting starts.” It is a mentality that is rooted in the very founding of our country, which is built on subjugating the labor and lives of African Americans.