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In 2016, then-candidate Donald J. Trump asked African Americans, "what the hell do you have to lose," by supporting his campaign. Nearly four years later, the answer is painfully clear: a hell of a lot.

In the past eight months alone, a majority of Black businesses have closed, Black families are experiencing high unemployment and facing economic insecurity. Most tragic of all, Black people have died from the novel coronavirus at double the rate of whites.

It didn't have to be that way, but thanks to President Trump's desire to not cause Americans to panic, he and his administration withhel...