Coronavirus Hitting the Black Community Hard

Coronavirus Hitting the

IBlack Community Hard f you have visited the Evanston Library and had the opportunity to meet him you knew Mustafa was a gentle giant. Mustafa Stanley Azeem passed away May 19th from a CoVID-19 related illness. He is described as a good man who was passionate about his people. He served the youth, his community, and Evanston Library with a black dignity. He was a graduate from ETHS and stayed in Evanston as an adult. His death though is symbolic of what the coronavirus is doing to Why Is This Happening? The answer is not so simple but the detailed observations will include poverty and lack of resources as its core. Sergirgation will be the tool used to create the divide. Since the inception of the city of Evanston has been an attractive place for hopeful and upwardly mobile African American families. the black community not only in Evanston, also in the US as Black families migrated to Evanston and changed the landscape a whole. in a great way. “A great way to map the location and progress of

The national death percentages for the black community and number of Churches.” said, Dino Robinson. Robinson is averages 15%. In Chicago, African American covid cases the founder of Shorefront Legacy, a museum specializing in average 30% of all cases and its predicted to rise based on black history. Churches show progress in the black community summer projections. The black community is contracting (generalization) Evanston boasts a long list of historically high the virus and dying from it at much higher rates than other church numbers. The African American population primarily ethnic groups. Cook County Commissioner Brandon grew because the wealthy of Evanston needed Servants and

Johnson, D-Chicago, called on county officials to provide free paid well. The people of Evanston were then segregated into

COVID-19 testing and treatment to at-risk groups such as the neighborhoods marked by those churches. service workers who have to keep going out to work.

“It is becoming increasingly clear that the communities that of inequality that favored (and flattered) local whites and have suffered through institutional racism and crisis for minimized conflict through patterns of paternalism and generations have certainly born the brunt of this disease,” deference symbolized by the relationship of the domestic

Johnson said. “But we are very clear that this pandemic has service. certainly not only exposed the gross isolation of poverty in the comedian Shawn Morgan has revealed that his family has seen 12 deaths due to Covid-19. Evanston’s African American population is to note the location Race relations in Evanston were structured by a high degree city of Chicago and Cook County, but quite frankly the whole The policies that came out of the relationships in this system country.” has historically oppressed the Black Evanstonian, thus leaving the less prepared to be exposed. Less heatlh care resources

Chicago is Evanston’s closest city. Therefore watching the made it possible for a pandemic to effect the population infected numbers and interactions between Chicagoans and most vulnerable our black community. Key members of the

Evanstonians is imperitive. community have been exposed to the virus and some have

A recent interview with Chicagoan and national Comicview your safety direct all questions to 311. passed on because of it. We want to keep you safe. To insure

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