Newsroom.gy – 22 May 2020
More than 60 Guyanese in the United States have lost their lives to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
This was evident from tributes posted on the Facebook page of the Guyanese Consulate in New York.
The Consulate General of Guyana in New York, Barbara Atherly, has created an online memorial platform on Facebook –Honoring Guyanese Lost to Coronavirus –where persons have been posting photos and memories of their loved ones who died from COVID-19 complications.
“The purpose of this page is to honor Guyanese who have died of COVID-19 so that family, friends and the larger Guyanese Community may pay their respects in this time of social distancing,” Atherly said in a letter posted to the page.
SEE PHOTOS AND LIST OF SOME OF THE GUYANESE IN THE USA WHO HAVE SUCCUMBED TO COVID-19
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Montreal: Racial situations at play similar to those in the U.S.A. – By Yvonne Sam
Black Montreal has been fighting a pandemic that predates Covid 19—It is Racism by the SPVM.
According to Monnica Williams, a clinical psychologist and professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada, who studies African American mental health says, “Racism is traumatic for people of color.” “Everything that you have to carry around anyway as a black person, to add onto it having to watch people in your community who’ve done nothing killed at the hands of people in power who will probably suffer few, if any, consequences”. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/magazine/racisms-psychological-toll.html.
Our screens and feeds are filled with feeds and images of Black Americans dying or being brutalized. Scores of killings answered with acquittals. Now, as a pandemic rages, Blacks in communities across the country disproportionally devastated by COVID-19 are now forced to bear witness to more deaths at the hand of racist policemen. Continue reading →
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