Maria caused an estimated 4645 "excess deaths"
largely due medical disruptions in part caused by the blackout, and this was not just a climate disaster but also a man-made disaster because climate-vulnerable places need fewer power lines to fix...
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Black Americans' enslaved (farmworker) ancestors were themselves the main assets at the beginning of America's racial wealth gap--and in fact much more valuable to their owners than the land they worked itself, also stolen.
which has risen to new record levels in the wake of the Dems neoliberal response to the Great Recession, is critical for understanding the racial resentment that drives many Trump voters. After all...
Most US viewers were likely confused by the power lines act and accompanying song, "El Apagón," in Bad Bunny's halftime show, but not Puerto Rican or Puerto Rican-American viewers or their relatives who were subjected to Hurricane Maria's power blackout aftermath in 2017, the worst in US history.