Burnishing his legacy as a folk hero manning the infectious disease desk at the National Institutes of Health for the last 40 years, 80-year-old Dr. Anthony Fauci told Emory graduates that Covid-19 exposes “the undeniable racism” in American society. Fauci’s in his elements opining about things he knows little about, or, because he’s the nation’s poster grandpa fighting Covid-19, he has the right to talk about anything that comes to his mind. Fauci did more damage to former President Donald Trump’s bid for a second term than practically any other public figure. Using his voice during the pit of the novel coronavirus global pandemic, Fauci did everything possible to discredit 74-year-old President Donald Trump. Granting untold numbers of interviews in the anti-Trump press, Fauci did a number on Trump. No issue wrecked Trump’s chances of a second term more than Covid-19.
Fauci went down the rabbit hole explaining how Covid-19 exposed the ugly underbelly of American racism, showing what he calls “health discrepancies” between white and certain minority groups like blacks, Latinos and Native Americans. “Covid-19 has shone a bright light on our society’s failings,” Fauci said at a graduation ceremony at Emory University. Fauci, a government bureaucrat with a $450,000 annual salary, clings to his job, showing no signs of retiring. Whatever satisfaction Fauci once got from his NIH job, it pales in comparison to the joy he get in front of the cameras. Trump couldn’t stop the Energizer Bunny, preferring press interviews over actually doing his NIH job in allergy and infectious disease. Nothing gave Fauci more pleasure than getting back at Trump after he sidelined Fauci for playing politics. Fauci got the last laugh, succeeding at discrediting Trump in the press.
Fauci’s comfortable with 78-year-oldj President Joe Biden’s narrative that the U.S. is a “systemically racist” Nation, buying into the prevailing left-wing drumbeat that white America is racist. After all, denying racist confirms the hypothesis of Ibram X. Kendi [formerly Henry Rogers] who’s laughing all the way to the bank with his best selling 2020 book, “How to Become and Anti-Racist.” Kendi gives his simplistic version of Critical Race Theory, that studies the criminal justice system’s built in inequities as it relates to white supremacy and achieving racial emancipation. After George Floyd’s May 25, 2020 murder by former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin and months of race riots in the U.S., Kendi was given rocket fuel for his book, adopted as a 2020 campaign theme by the Biden administration. Biden was the first president to assert that the U.S. is a “systemically racist” country.
Fauci talks about racial inequalities when it comes to the global coronavirus pandemic but doesn’t admit the government’s role in assuring that people of color get the vaccine, in many ways, before the white community. Whatever problems African Americans have with the U.S. health care system, it’s not due to ‘systemic racism,” since civil rights laws protect them from discrimination by insurance companies and health care systems, like hospitals and clinics. Fauci talks about “co-morbidities,” including diabetes, heart and lung diseases, or separate medical conditions associated with the African American or other minority groups. “Now, very few of these co-morbidities have racial determinants,” Fauci said, not exactly factual. African Americans have a higher instance of diabetes or high blood pressure, having little to do with only bad eating habits.
Fauci presents himself a pro-civil rights advocate, suggesting that “social factors” account for differences in heath, or response to Covid-19, than whites. “Almost all relate to the social determinants of health dating back disadvantageous conditions that some people of color find themselves in from birth regarding the availability of an adequate diet, access of health care and the undeniable effects of racism in our society,” Fauci told the Emory audience. While it’s fashionable to blame everything or race, the adverse effects Fauci talks about are more related to socioeconomic conditions not racism. Since the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the government, employers or insurance companies are not permitted to discriminate against persons of color. When Fauci talks about “disadvantageous conditions,” he’s not talking about racism but socioeconomic or socio-cultural conditions.
Fauci as a doctor knows that various minority groups, including whites, have different disease-producing habits, including smoking, alcohol and drug use or preference when it comes to diet. Blaming cigarette or beverage companies for targeting African Americans or other minorities is not about racism, it’s about what sells in their communities. Biden’s statements that the U.S. is a “systemically racist” country sends a destructive message to the rest of the world. U.S. laws under the Constitution protect all minorities from racial discrimination by the government and corporations. Biden was recently told by China March 18 at the Anchorage, Alaska summit that no country that’s “systemically racist” has a right to lecture other countries about human rights. So for Fauci to say that the Covid-19 crisis exposed “the undeniable effects of racist” is just pure propaganda, utter rubbish.
