After Racist Response: Oregon County Drops Mask Exemption For People of Color

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Health Editor’s Note: It is recommended, by the CDC, that people wear masks, especially if they cannot keep the 6 foot physical distancing goal. Some non-whites feared that wearing a mask would target them as a potential criminal.  A county in Oregon offered a mask exemption for people of color, because of these concerns. This has back fired….Carol

An Oregon county drops its mask exemption for people of color after racist response

by Scottie Andrew/CNN

(CNN)A mask mandate exemption for people of color meant to address racial profiling concerns has been removed after racist backlash, Oregon county officials said in a statement.



“The expressions of racism regarding the exception has created a ripple of fear throughout our communities of color. The very policy meant to protect them, is now making them a target for further discrimination and harassment,” Lincoln County leaders said Wednesday.
The county requires most residents to wear face coverings in public settings, indoors or outdoors. The locale, which is overwhelmingly White, had been one of the first places in the United States to exempt non-White residents if they fear harassment.
Also exempt are people with disabilities or medical conditions whose breathing would be obstructed by a mask and children under 12, though children ages 2 through 12 are still encouraged to cover their faces.
But following the announcement, county leaders received unprecedented vitriol and “horrifically racist commentary” that turned the policy into one that makes people of color more of a target for harassment and discrimination, the statement said.
Lincoln County, home to nearly 50,000 residents, is almost 90% White and less than 1% Black, census data shows. But it’s also home to the Siletz Reservation and…..read more:

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  1. “After Racist Response: Oregon County Drops Mask Exemption For People of Color”… this “spin” is ridiculous! Seems to me the real racists were those virtue-signaling bureaucrats that called for a mask exemption for people of color in the first place, especially given, that black people were more susceptible to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Social-engineering and white guilt apologists need to kept far away any health pandemic guidelines.

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