The term middle class is not the same thing for black and white Americans.

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The term middle class is not the same thing for black and white Americans. Middle-class blacks according to the distribution of opportunities in the nation, are the lower middle class while whites are in the higher middle class (Abelo). This is because of the disproportionate income distribution. Many African Americans working in white-collar jobs usually hold an administrative position such as office assistants, unlike their white colleagues. This means that the white person is able to pay for a house that is $48,000 worth the same quality in black neighborhoods (WPSU). There is no mortgage institution that is always willing to finance huge residential investments in an area where the risk is high and the value of the property is down not as much as in white neighborhoods. The result is a middle class of black people that gets the second-hand version of everything.

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New York is among the cities that are reaching overwhelming numbers of infections. This rise in infections has made it necessary to evaluate the cities preparedness for the epidemic. The state Commissioner for health in his briefing of the situation of the state’ preparedness with dealing with the issues of the novel COVID-19 outlines New York State’s action plans and key measures for the response to the virus (NYU). The Department has been preparing itself although for a different health pandemic but the facilities they created over these days are very futuristic and because they were developed in preparation for the influenza pandemic, which will from that point going forward replaced with Covid-19 to translate sleeping resources into actual assets. ]

The other thing is that the United States government is not heading in the right direction and the president’s inability to handle simple duties such as not making an inoffensive statement on live television is at all. It Is not okay for the president calling the novel Covid-19 Chinese virus because of its origin in China reinforcing the discrimination Asians are now facing across the nation and with even cases of violence against this group in certain areas. As always, President Trump’s opinion with the press gives a listener the idea that he is as clueless about the unrolling pandemic as the people he is supposed to be informing. When asked about what the right time was to lift the current lockdown and allow people to interact and move around in their societies, President Trump responded that he was thinking about lifting the lockdown during Easter and allowing people to congregate in churches and praise God. The person that will stay away from these gatherings will be really wise and the government plotting to encourage mass gatherings in less than 2 week’s time. The virus will not have subsidized in and this congregations will be the beginning of mass infections and death,

Works Cited

Abelo, O. P. “Why Black Neighborhoods Are Valued Less Than Other Neighborhoods.” Next City – Inspiring Better Cities, 2018, nextcity.org/daily/entry/why-black-neighborhoods-are-valued-less-than-other-neighborhoods.

NYU. “Understanding COVID-19: A Panel Discussion on the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak.” New York University School of Global Public Health | NYU School of Global Public Health, 2019, publichealth.nyu.edu/events-news/events/featured-past-events/understanding-covid19-novel-coronavirus.

WPSU. “Black Misssion Vern Conversations FrommPenn State.” YouTube, 2009, www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Black+misssion+vern+conversations+frommPenn+state+.