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CINCINNATI, Ohio – As protests sweep across the United States, one Ohio parish has turned to its city’s black activists and faith leaders for the real story about a pair of related viruses: COVID-19 and racism.
“There’s a saying that when America catches a cold, black people catch pneumonia; I’d say that when the world is burning, black people are catching hell,” said Reverend Nelson Pierce, Jr. during the June 1 livestream, “The Color of COVID and the New Jim Crow.”
St. Robert Bellarmine Parish and the Institute for Spirituality and Social Justice at Xavier University – both located in Cincinnati, Ohio – co-sponsored the event, building on work that the parish’s Dismantling Racism Team has been doing since its inception in 2007.
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'When the world is burning, black people are catching hell,' minister says
“There’s a saying that when America catches a cold, black people catch pneumonia; I’d say that when the world is burning, black people are catching hell,” said Reverend Nelson Pierce, Jr. during the June 1 livestream, “The Color of COVID and the New Jim Crow.”
St. Robert Bellarmine Parish and the Institute for Spirituality and Social Justice at Xavier University – both located in Cincinnati, Ohio – co-sponsored the event, building on work that the parish’s Dismantling Racism Team has been doing since its inception in 2007.
Continued below.
'When the world is burning, black people are catching hell,' minister says
