The Pandemic Has Exposed America’s Most Dangerous Virus

A nation finally says the quiet part out loud

Tim Wise
GEN
Published in
7 min readMay 11, 2020

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Photo: Tayeb MEZAHDIA/Pixabay

There is a virus ravaging America, but it’s not the one you’re thinking of. It has been here for a long time, for much longer than Covid-19. Patient zero would have been present among the nation’s founders perhaps, or even earlier, in the colonies of what would become the United States. It has…

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Tim Wise
GEN
Writer for

Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)