A “white privilege” flyer was recently spotted posted in New York City addressing the apparent racial disparity in respecting and enforcing the social distancing guidelines imposed during the coronavirus pandemic that has disproportionately affected Black people.
It poked fun at the decidedly un-funny spate of police officers responding with force to Black people violating social distancing guidelines while cops also responded with tender loving care to white people guilty of the same thing.
“If you are white and hanging out in a group of 5 or more people, please wait patiently for an NYPD officer to personally deliver a mask to you,” the sign said next to a bullet point before continuing:
“Please practice social distancing by remaining 6 feet from others unless of course you are white, then there are NO rules or consequences because YOU ARE PRIVILEGED AF and it shows.”
While the photo of the sign was tweeted on May 10, its contents remained applicable over the weekend as photos showed white people in a very white neighborhood not only flouting the city’s social distancing guidelines, but they were also doing so by drinking in public on the sidewalk in what news reports compared to a scene from Mardi Gras.
Many were wearing masks, some were not, but all of them were in violation of the same social distancing guidelines that as of last week had resulted in dozens of arrests of mostly Black people.
