"Why is Covid killing people of colour" - BBC1 2/3/21.
David Harewood spent an hour explaining how white people have been using Covid to kill black people. It's systemic racism in schools and the NHS apparently, the former obliging elements of the community to live in polluted areas near roads. Unless I fell asleep at some point, disproportionate Black deaths (not intended as a pun) are nothing to do with culture and natural underlying medical issues.
He tilted between BAME and Black to get the most appropriate statistics to suit his agenda. I'm not sure if it was an attempt at humour but at one point he stated that most of the front line medical staff (nurses, porters and doctors) are BAME who are forced into the riskiest jobs by white staff who also insist that BAME staff use unsuitable PPE. Later he states that Black people are more likely to die in hospital because the (white, not stated) staff don't pay attention to the Black patients, completely forgetting that he has just told us that the staff in question are mostly BAME.
He kept going on about the underlying heath conditions that Black people have (as a result of white actions and omissions), often quoting his own ailments such as high blood pressure and kidney function as well as a history of mental illness. Looking up his Wiki page, I see that he was sectioned because he was "self-medicating" with alcohol. That rather suggests to me that his underlying ailments are as likely self-inflicted as genetic or forced on him by white supremacists.
Apparently most BAME people live in deprived areas because schools don't encourage them to make the most of education so they're stuck with low-paid jobs (doesn't he know the wages paid to Underground staff and bus drivers?). The inference is that white people tend to live in affluent areas with no pollution and the ability to jog round the local park and are thus less likely to develop Type 2 Diabetes and hence are more Covid-resistant.
He was visibly upset when a government spokeswoman (herself of Asian appearance) disagreed with the suggestion that Black susceptibility to Covid was due to systemic racism.
Overall, the programme came over as an advertisement for Operation Black Vote than as a documentary. I thought the BBC was mandated to be apolitical.