Posted on 04/07/2020 2:00:46 PM PDT by blam
Because black people are treated like criminals if they do the same.
CNN has published a lengthy article suggesting that wearing face masks to guard against coronavirus is racist due to African-Americans not being able to wear them over fears they will be treated like criminals.
Yes, really.
Noting that the CDC has encouraged all Americans to wear face masks in the fight against COVID-19, Trevor Logan, an economics professor at Ohio State University, says he “will not be following this guidance.”
“We have a lot of examples of the presumed criminality of black men in general,” Logan, who presumably isn’t knowledgable about FBI crime statistics, told CNN.
“And then we have the advice to go out in public in something that … can certainly be read as being criminal or nefarious, particularly when applied to black men,” he adds, noting how a black man wearing a face mask “looks like almost every criminal sketch of any garden-variety black suspect.”
On social media and in interviews with CNN, a number of people of color — activists, academics and ordinary Americans — expressed fears that homemade masks could exacerbate racial profiling and place blacks and Latinos in danger. https://t.co/hgJ435erKz
— CNN (@CNN) April 7, 2020
CNN Fernando Alfonso III then references how on social media “a number of people of color — activists, academics and ordinary Americans — expressed fears that homemade masks could exacerbate racial profiling and place blacks and Latinos in danger.”
In other words, the government advising Americans to wear face masks is discriminatory because blacks and hispanics who wear them may be mistaken for criminals.
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I have seem some women wearing these and they are hawt...
Now do Antifa.
And Islam.
New things I have learned are racist.
1 Coronavirus (according to the news adn the Mayor of Chicago)
2. Face masks to protect yourself.
That’s why I dont wear one.
And I don’t think this illness is the black death.
But there’s 7 people within inches of each on the porch next door. And that’s ok I guess but one of them is a baby and one is about 5.
That’s just dumb
our neighbor who is black was out in a clown halloween type mask.
COVID or just crazy? we don’t know.
Only white people should wear protective face masks
Ok?
How much more stupid can CNN get???
Breathing is racist.
There's always one a little worse than the last, eh?
Then I am seeing a LOT of racist people around.
But keep talking CNN. People have more common sense than you are giving them credit for.
+100
Apparently alot more than we are lead on to believe!
I wore a bandana mask today for the first time.
For one reason only. I think it makes other people feel better.
CNN is racist. 24 hour hate speech.
Everything and anything can be called racist when you look under every rock for racism, like they do. If it isn’t there then they obviously just make some up.
It does. I feel much better when they wear them around me.
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