What we’re really talking about is structural racism.”Tracing the origins of Black health disparities, you can go all the way back to the slave traders’ barracoons. But the modern history of the segregation that is keeping the Black death rate separate and unequal begins during Du Bois’s era, at the turn of the 20th century. Blue dots represent Black deaths; red dots represent white deaths. Nevertheless, the white death rate during 1918 was still lower than Black mortality had ever been. The same is likely to be true for the white death rate during the current pandemic.

Source: New York Times August 11, 2020 09:01 UTC