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Amad Arbery would have turned 26 last Friday. People across the U.S. commemorated his

life by running 2.23 miles, referencing the day he died. A former high school football star, he was jogging

near his home on the outskirts of Brunswick, Georgia, on Sunday, February 23rd.

According to authorities, he was shot and killed after being pursued by two white men with guns.

The men were charged last Thursday with murder and aggravated assault.

Two days after a shocking video of the shooting of Mr. Arbery became public.

This tragedy is raising once again the specter of racism in our culture.

Administration officials announced Saturday that three members of the White House

Coronavirus Task Force, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, would self-quarantine after contact with a person who

tested positive for COVID-19. Let's take a moment to consider the pervasiveness of the SARS-CoV-2

virus as a metaphor for racism. Both are unseen in a person's life until they become symptomatic.

Both can infect people who do not

recognize symptoms of the disease in their lives and thus think they are free of infection.

Both often produce symptoms that worsen over time, and both can infect people who become

carriers who infect others. A year ago, I wrote a white paper that examines the issue of racism in depth.

You can find a link on my website.

I reported that slavery began in the New World in 1619,

when the first group of African slaves arrived in Jamestown, Virginia.

Many Europeans argued that Africans were inferior and declared that

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