The pandemic obviously is the thing that was the hallmark of 2020. There was so much mourning, so much loss, so much sadness in this country. And there was a presidency that really failed to meet the moment in ways objectively seen because the President downplayed the virus -- he didn't take it seriously. It's largely, in part, based on my reporting, why he lost the election.
I think you couple the pandemic terrible loss with the political upheaval, and I also want to point out the statistic that I think continues to stick with me which is that African Americans are more than two and a half, three times more likely to die than white Americans of the coronavirus pandemic in the same when African Americans are two and a half to three times more likely to be killed by the police than white Americans.
So this was also a year where the pandemic exposed the long-standing inequalities in this country, and it shows that African Americans and people of color continue to not be treated as equal citizens in this country. So I think that that is the thing that sticks with me, and so dual crises of health care and the economy as well as a racial reckoning that continues to happen.
. Craig Millward
