COVID-19 Youth Perspective 7

COVID-19 Youth Perspective

Within this podcast, the students discuss how Covid-19 has impacted the black community on a massive scale in many different ways. Ranging from local impacts, instate impacts, and even more. Youth host Marcel discusses how not being in school due to COVID-19 could limit low-income black students from resources like access to the internet, access to a computer, and tutoring. The students have found that there has also been evidence of disproportionate access to testing based on racial and economic background. If this is the case for regular citizens, then many homeless people in black neighborhoods are prone to infection. He then expresses that African American kids have to survive day to day, be cautious at all times, and more due to their skin color. COVID-19 makes this worse because it confines a community that is already struggling to limited support. The students provide resources and insight on how these negative impacts are being handled. In particular, Marcel mentions the Wi-Fi bus hotspots provided for students within our local community who may have internet problems. Finally, the students discuss how the shutting down of schools has affected student's diets. Many students relied on school for food through free or reduced lunch. The lack of wealth of African American households is a detrimental issue for Black children, causing food and housing insecurity and stress for African American children.