When I wrote that our national shortcomings are being revealed

7/ @nytimes reports that experts say Black and Latino people are more likely than white people to be exposed to the virus because many have front-line jobs, rely on public transportation or live in cramped apartments or multigenerational homes. https://t.co/FPnHpPf7MT

— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 6, 2020

This is what I meant.  I do none of these things, and except for the "front-line jobs," the rest had never occurred to me as a cause for disease transmission.  But it's obvious, isn't it?  And yet invisible to so many of us who are not Black or Latino (i.e., poor, or at least below middle middle class).  I pride myself on being more aware of my limitations of sight because of my position as a well-educated white male.

I pride myself on that, and as ever, my pride is what blinds me.  Lessons in humility abound, and yet it is so hard to take them.