HeartBeat

1,219,487* = 14 days + 2 hrs + 44 min + 47 sec

*on-line COVID updating ceased on 04.13.24; now to envision a memoriam – one mark per second, every second, for more than 2 weeks. continuous. begin here. [for EAC].

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The context and the undercounting. || The negation and disregard in white America for the severity and embodied impact of (not just) COVID-19 on Black communities does not exist outside of lived disparity – it is the direct cause as well as the direct result of it. So, how does disparity arise? Can we agree that it doesn’t cause itself? For those of us who are white and care about racial health inequity, how do we start saying the quiet part louder?

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[2017]