'Statistically, the people who typically die as a result of accidents, including fires, are disproportionately people of color,' writes JosiahBates
, which looks at the current and historical racial and economic disparities in accidental deaths. The book also explores the word “accident” and how it’s used by the public. Speaking with TIME the day after the Bronx fire, Singer discussed how accidental fires fit into this dynamic and why the discussion around accidental deaths need to change.
If you examine how racial disparities appear in accidental death, where outcomes are most starkly divided by race, it’s [in] the accidents that could have been prevented through policy and infrastructure. Accidental deaths are extremely affected by deregulation, so as the federal government shrinks and our agencies that are meant to protect us become smaller and more defanged, we are less protected from accidents and therefore more likely to die.Your book explores how we talk about accidents. What are the issues with the current narrative around them?
Accidents sort of focus on this idea of human error, that someone did something wrong. And if that’s our narrative, then the answer is to fix people. That’s the most powerful narrative of the word accident, that it’s a people problem. If we look at the data, accidents happen under dangerous conditions. That’s what we should be focused on.I think if people hear the word “accident,” it should make people ask questions.
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