Moreover, the majority of essential workers seems to be minorities working in the food service and delivery fields, warehouse workers, health care aides in nursing homes and assisted living centers, etc. many of the which didn’t necessarily choose to work, but had to work in order to take care of the family – including family members that may be unemployed during the shelter in place order.
The ugly business of beauty
Brittany Brown, a Black hair salon owner in Fort Worth, was publicly shamed on Facebook by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for continuing to run her business.
Yet, when Shelly Luther, a White salon owner, blatantly went against Dallas County and Texas’ orders and reopened her salon to customers, people began to rally behind her.
But on May 7, Abbott remained persistent, reopening salons and barbershops throughout Texas Friday and eliminating jail time for shelter-in-home violators in a modified version of his executive orders for COVID-19, which would also be applied retroactively to Castro-Garcia and Mata’s cases.
Throwing fire on flames
It gets worse…
Just as African Americans were watching and waiting for the light at the end of the tunnel – when they can go back to work, be in the presence of family and friends, and enjoy life as it used to be – the unjust deaths of two young Black men and a young Black woman came to light.
