YouTube host Irami Osei-Frimpong said on Hill.TV’s “Rising” Tuesday that an important part of U.S.’s economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic will involve addressing inequality and avoiding any false sense of unity.
“We understand that reality is divided with this k-shaped recovery. That’s characterized by the way different segments of the population of the economy are going along different rates in different paths,” said Osei-Frimpong, known as the Funky Academic.
“Now, a characteristic feature of unity is that we all have the shared fate. We all have a shared fate. And we have to ask ourselves, what do you think about Biden’s administration? Do all parts of his coalition have a shared fate? Do the soccer moms and the working class Black folks like have a shared fate?”
According to the University of Georgia doctoral candidate, division and unity are manufactured through content in “non-obvious ways,” and a false unity is often created through messaging that tells people they share a mutual destiny.
However, the way economic recovery from the pandemic will play out may not align with that idea, Osei-Frimpong said.
Research has indicated that minority populations have been more affected more by the coronavirus, both economically and medically.
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