Tone deaf racists

Just two examples...

A GOP state lawmaker in Ohio on Tuesday asked if “the colored population” is hit harder by the coronavirus because they possibly "don’t wash their hands as well as other groups" while speaking at a hearing on whether to declare racism a public health crisis.

Ohio state Sen. Steve Huffman, an emergency room physician, asked the question during a state Senate Health Committee hearing.

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“Could it just be that African Americans or the colored population do not wash their hands as well as other groups or wear a mask or do not socially distance themselves? That could be the explanation of the higher incidence?”

  The Hill

He is an emergency room physician!

Ohio Legislative Black Caucus President Stephanie Howse (D) told the Daily News the rhetoric represented systematic racism.

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“When we talk about the health disparities that happen because black folks aren’t believed when they’re actually hurt, they aren’t given the treatment that they need. Do you think that someone who acknowledges the ‘coloreds’ is going to give the love and care that people need when they come through those doors?”

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State Sen. Cecil Thomas (D), who serves on the state Senate Health Committee, said audience members cringed at Huffman’s remark.

“He’s an example of why we have to have this discussion about racism and how it impacts people,” Thomas told the Daily News.

State Rep. Tavia Galonski (D) urged residents to vote “if you want a different Ohio than this.”

Very good idea.

Two owners of a Missouri newspaper have stepped down from the news organization controlled by their father over an editorial cartoon the publisher later acknowledged was racially insensitive.

"We saw the cartoon at the same time as our readers and were just as outraged and horrified as our staff and community," Susan Miller Warden and Jeanne Miller Wood, two of the owners of the Washington Missourian, wrote in a public apology titled "We're Sorry."

"Had we known we would have vehemently fought against publishing it. We believe this is the reason we were kept in the dark about its publication," they wrote.

The cartoon shows a black man wearing a mask and a hoodie stealing a purse from a white woman.

“Help!! Somebody call 911!” reads the cartoon.

“Good luck with that lady, we defunded the police," the man replies.

  The Hill

UPDATE: Huffman is fired from his ER job.