It’s like we never learn.

Our healthcare “system” isn’t delivering equitable healthcare to Black folks? Who would have thunk it!?

I have been writing, literally for years, about how HIV continues to circulate needlessly in the United States, about how some cities even have hospital AIDS wards — because Black people and other marginalized communities can’t get access to antiretroviral medication that stops the circulation of HIV and prevents AIDS in people who are HIV positive.

It’s like shouting into the wind sometimes. “Yo, our healthcare infrastructure is racist! It’s killing people! Let’s do something about it!”

Response? Great big collective yawn. “You must be exaggerating.”

Then along comes covid-19, and the exact same thing happens. But on a larger scale.

Sure would be nice if we’d learn from our history sometimes.