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Proving that they put more emphasis on the color of someone’s skin rather than the content of their character, ABC’s Tuesday COVID blame special, American Catastrophe: How Did We Get Here? argued that an alleged lack of diversity on the White House’s Coronavirus Task Force was responsible for the deaths of many minorities to the virus.
Amid their hour-long special blaming the Trump administration for virus deaths, Morehouse Medical School professor, Dr. Sonja Hutchins decried: “The role of the federal government in this pandemic is very, very clear who's missing: leadership that mirrors the diversity of the United States population. When you see that then we'll probably see different outcomes.”
“Those deaths could have been prevented. And that's the most troubling part,” she later added.
While Hutchins made that initial declaration, ABC aired cherry-picked footage of one Coronavirus Task Force briefing which showed mostly white males (pictured above), including Vice President Mike Pence, HHS Secretary Alex Azar, CDC Director Robert Redfield, FDA Commissioner Stephan Hahn, and NIH Director Dr. Anthony Fauci among others.
ABC’s selectiveness in picking which briefing footage to share in the special was intended to push a false narrative. This was obvious because the Task Force was, in reality, quite diverse.
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