These crises will be forever linked in the annals of history not just because they collided in time but also just as the cruel murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minnesota police finally tore open the gapping cruelty of police in this nation toward its African-American citizens, COVID-19 laid bare the inequities of Black life from every aspect of their existence from poor housing, low paid jobs, lack of access to health care, and the list goes on.
The growing economic devastation in Black communities will require strong fiscal support to uplift Black communities that have, in addition to the current crisis, existed since Emancipation.
To help ensure the current double crisis is not exacerbated by reduced federal funding as the nation looks to recovery, makes it doubly important for every Black to be counted in the census for those who no longer can.
According to recent COVID-19 mortality data, the mortality rate for Black Americans is 2.3 times as
high as it is for Whites and Asians, and 2.2 times higher than the mortality rate for the Latinx community.
In addition, SCLC leadership offered the following, “The Lord spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Desert of Sinai”. . . He said, ‘Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one.
