A Pandemic That Disproportionately Kills Black People Is Not a ‘Great Equalizer’

Politicians like to say the coronavirus does not discriminate. But we now know that’s simply not true.

EMTs bring a patient into Wyckoff Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, on April 6, 2020. Photo: Bryan R. Smith/Getty Images

There’s a particularly obnoxious genre of platitude that’s become standard since the Covid-19 outbreak: The political call for unity. In his first coronavirus…