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Even Trump has noticed. “Why is it that the African American community is suffering so much more. It doesn’t take “a very stable genius” to connect black people’s higher rates of unemployment, mass incarceration, chronic preexisting medical issues, poor housing, homelessness and less reliable access to quality health care to see why they’re more vulnerable to increased viral transmission, infection and death during a pandemic. Black people are also less likely to work in the kinds of jobs that will continue to pay you if you don’t physically show up in the office. As New York Times columnist Charles Blow pointed out this week, the ability to work from home, to practice social distancing, and to wear a mask without fear of being arrested or shot while black are all forms of privilege.