While it is clear that some people in the Bame community are not exercising social distancing, the same applies to white communities
Lord Simon Woolley, founder and director of Operation Black Vote and the advisory chair of the UK Race Disparity Unit, said, “When the data clearly doesn’t support the rhetoric, the rhetoric is in danger of becoming a poisonous racist rant. Haven’t Bame communities suffered enough without now being blamed for its rise?”
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