On Being A Single Dad A Journalist And A Black South Sider During The Pandemic

Evan F. Moore is a culture/entertainment writer with the Chicago Sun-Times. Evan attended Donald Trump’s Chicago rally and lived to tell about it.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, I’m running out of excuses. Like the rest of us, she’s trying to make sense of the new reality. 

“That was fun,” my daughter blurted out. 

Unfortunately, we’ve had to cut our visits short due to social distancing guidelines, my parents’ susceptibility to COVID-19, and the fact that they live blocks away from Symphony South Shore, the nursing home/rehabilitation center where 70 percent of the residents tested positive for COVID-19.

And no one is immune. State representative Kam Buckner tweeted about his experience shopping while Black when a police officer stopped him. The police officer told him: “People are using the coronavirus to do bad things. I couldn’t see your face, man. You looked like you were up to something.”