Six Quick Links for Tuesday Noonish

"In the era of COVID-19, the Magical Negro reappears on the news and in mass media as an economic and moral foil otherwise known as the Essential Worker." [electricliterature.com]

The military crackdown on protests in DC reminded Abdallah Fayyad of his experience as a Palestinian living in Jerusalem. "Being in the streets of Washington reminded me of the occupation I endured as a Palestinian." [bostonglobe.com]

During the most intense days of the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, nursing homes in some US states were forced to keep accepting residents w/o testing. In NY, 6% of their nursing home residents died of Covid-19. And New Jersey lost 12%. 12%! [propublica.org]

Millions of dollars have been raised for "The Black Lives Matter Foundation", but that organization is not affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement and its goal is "bringing the community and police closer together". [buzzfeednews.com]

Matt Webb compiled a list of some of the more unusual ways that people are keeping in touch with each other during the pandemic (spreadsheet parties, virtual conferences, business meetings in Red Dead Redemption 2). [interconnected.org]

Jelani Cobb writes in 'An American Spring of Reckoning' that the demonstrations against police violence have "laid bare the contradictory and partial democracy that the United States holds before the world as exemplary". [newyorker.com]

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