The Racist Cost of a Pandemic Vacation in The Bahamas

Is our suffering worth the frolic on the beach and a few Instagram likes?

Alicia Wallace
Momentum
Published in
4 min readSep 15, 2020

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It has only been a year since Hurricane Dorian devastated Abaco and Grand Bahama in The Bahamas. The country has been reeling from its impact since September 2019, from unknown death tolls to the slow process of rebuilding. Now, the Covid-19 pandemic

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Alicia Wallace
Momentum

Women’s human rights defender, research consultant, gender expert, public educator, movement builder, writer. #Caribbean #Bahamas #Equality242 @_AliciaAudrey