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Spenser Darden September 2020  \nI still remember when the email came.  \n“In my 40 years as a university president, the crisis at hand is like none other I have ever experienced... For the remainder of the semester, all classes…will not be conducted in-class and will [instead] be delivered in an alternative format.”  \nLess than a week after Governor Jim Justice in my home state of West Virginia announced the closing of all K-12 schools, and one day after the state’s first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), all in-person activities associated with the university at which I work were cancelled for the remainder of the semester.  \nBeginning in places like Seattle and Los Angeles, moving east to New York City, the virus wreaked havoc on communities with a common refrain: coronavirus disproportionately  affected older adults. This analysis ignored unreported factors that demonstrated  \ntime and again to be a critical factor in health disparity. Analyses failed to capture the disproportionate impact COVID-19 had on lower-income communities, rural communities, and communities of color – let alone any thoughtful dissection of the intersections therebetween. As we have too-often failed to do in the history of our country, narratives being constructed around the United State’s response to this unprecedented crisis were largely whitewashed and sub/urban-focused.  \nIn the throes of this global pandemic, one which gave rise to a rash of layoffs and furloughs that pushed unemployment claims to the double-digits, the comorbidity of endemic racism transfixed the nation. We watched with horror a video in which two armed White men hunted down and murdered Ahmaud Arbury, a Black man, in Georgia. We witnessed the murder of George Floyd, a Black man, in Minnesota. We learned of the murders of  Breonna Taylor, a Black woman, in Kentucky; and Nina Pop, a Black transwoman in Missouri; and Tony McDade, a Black trans man in Florida; and…  \n5272 River Road, Suite 340, Bethesda, [MD 20816 | 301-657-7741 | maec.org](MD 20816 | 301-657-7741 | maec.org) 1  \nAnd in communities large and small, including in our rural homes, Americans ( largely  college-aged) took to the streets demanding to be heard. We were demanding justice. We were demanding fairness. We were demanding equity.  \nWhile the unjust killings of Black Americans, particularly by police, took center-stage, the demand for justice is broad, focused on policies that exclude, demean, and dehumanize. In our rural communities, that means understanding how racism couples with place-based discrimination to magnify the impacts of, say, a global health crisis.  \nRacism  \nIn his highly-acclaimed book How To BeAn Anti-Racist, historian and scholar Dr. Ibram  \nX. Kendi defines racism as “a marriage of racist policies and racist ideas that produces and normalizes racial inequities.” Often we think about racism as obvious, indefensible remarks or actions that result in physical violence against people or communities of color. We conceive of racism as a character flaw or moral failure, rather than more accurately understanding racism as a descriptor of dehumanizing behavior. It is for these reasons that Justin* – a Black man – never felt a part of his rural, central West Virginia community. Having recently embarked on his senior year of college, Justin and I talked about how he experienced racism growing up in a state that is home to one of the Whitest populations in the nation.  \n“People are always like ‘oh my God, you’re from West Virginia, it must have been so horrible’ but like, it was never really someone calling me the n-word – I mean that happened. But it was more like being told ‘oh, my dad would never let me date you’ by a girl I liked or ‘","cbCaid1bXRvZ8D1m","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaid1bXRvZ8D1m","pdf",199238,"English","# Rural Equity Series\n## When Pandemic Meets Endemic: Injustice in Our Rural Homes\n## Racism\n## Placism","[{\"question\":\"How does the document describe the early COVID-19 response and its analytical blind spots?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that many analyses and narratives were incomplete, failing to capture disproportionate impacts on lower-income communities, rural communities, and communities of color.\"},{\"question\":\"What definition of racism does the document use?\",\"answer\":\"It cites Dr. Ibram X. 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