New York Times contributor declares 'whiteness' a 'pandemic': 'The only way to stop it is to kill it'

A New York Times columnist writing in the digital magazine The Root declared “whiteness” a “pandemic” and said the “only way to stop it” is to “kill it.”

“Whiteness is a public health crisis,” said New York Times columnist Damon Young in an op-ed. “It shortens life expediencies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills people—white people and people who are not white, my mom included. There will be people who die, in 2050, because of white supremacy-induced decisions from 1850.”