Be aware and think about a form of racism not often talked about.

As data accumulate that, in some places, people of colour are much more likely than white people to become ill and die of COVID-19, more discussions are grasping at factors beyond race to explain why. I’m used to this. When my book on environmental racism came out last year, one of the most common questions I received concerned alternative explanations for the greater ill health of minority ethnic groups. Surely, I was asked, the issue is not race, but poverty?