The Fundamental Difference is Obvious
Here are two different headlines from two different publications from within the very same 24-hour period. Notice the stark difference between the two and what each seeks to portray:
“Mounting US Deaths Reveal an Outsize Toll on People of Color”
— The Associated Press, August 21, 2020
“T-Cell Immunity Underestimated in Predictions for COVID-19 Herd Immunity: Study”
– The Epoch Times, August 20, 2020
You almost don’t have to read any further. Where the AP continues to thump the doom and despair that it seeks from any piece of data it can get its hands on, The Epoch Times is actually informing on new information that the scientific community deems newsworthy.
But when you read further into the AP article you see their agenda coming out full force:
“‘The toll of the pandemic shows just how pervasive structural racism is,’ said Olugbenga Ajilore, senior economist at the Center for American Progress, a public policy organization in Washington.
“Earlier data on cases, hospitalizations and deaths revealed the especially heavy toll on Black, Hispanic and Native Americans, a disparity attributed to unequal access to health care and economic opportunities. But the increases in total deaths by race were not reported until now; nor was the disproportionate burden on Asian Americans.”
As an aside and for the record, viruses do not distinguish between race and gender the way diseases do, so the AP headline is disingenuous from the get-go.
In this, there is a fundamental truth that is being raped at the hand of ideology. No one is deprived of healthcare in the United States. If you show up to an Emergency Room it is mandated by law that you get treatment, indigent or otherwise. Further, with the Federal government dishing out close to $40,000 per COVID patient, no patient that needs treatment because of COVID would go unadmitted.
Equally as appalling is the claim of a lack of economic opportunity for minority demographics. There are so many loan carve-outs, tax breaks, and incentives for minorities — whether it be based on race, gender, or disability — you can’t touch a file in a government office without at least one section being dedicated to some sort of minority affirmative action. Truth, devoid of spin, sees that there is not only opportunity for all in the United States, but an elevated opportunity for minorities, should they choose to work hard for what they want.
Funny that as minority activists were setting fire to minority-owned businesses in Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, DC, and so on, that the Associated Press wasn’t pointing out that successful minority-owned businesses were being destroyed and the minority businessman disenfranchised from opportunity.
Then, that doesn’t play into their ideological agenda.
Frank Salvato is a managing partner at TR² Consulting Group, LLC. He is the host of The Underground podcast as heard on iHeart Radio, Pandora, Spotify, and anywhere podcasts are heard. His writing has been recognized by the US House International Relations Committee and the Japan Center for Conflict Prevention. His analysis has been published by The American Enterprise Institute, The Washington Times, and Accuracy in Media, and is nationally syndicated. Mr. Salvato appeared on The O’Reilly Factor on FOX News Channel and is the author of six books examining internal and external threats facing our country. He can be heard twice weekly on “The Captain’s America: Third Watch” radio program syndicated nationally on the Salem Broadcasting Network and Genesis Communications affiliate stations.
