Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf answering questions from the press. Governor Tom Wolf today announced a $225 million statewide grant program to support small businesses that were impacted by the COVID-19 public health crisis and subsequent business closure order. Harrisburg, PA — June 8, 2020
During a Monday afternoon press conference Governor Tom Wolf announced a $225 million statewide grant program to support small businesses that were impacted by the COVID-19 public health crisis and subsequent business closure order.
During the press conference, Todd Bartley of News Talk WMPT (left side of photo) posed the following question to Governor Wolf regarding race relations going forward.
QUESTION: Governor, what is your best advice to Pennsylvanians in finding mutual understanding on the issues of race relations going forward?
“I think we have to start by making sure that we’re not in denial.
That we’ve got to recognize that there are two Pennsylvanias out there.
When you look at the criminal justice system there are two Pennsylvanias there is one Pennsylvania for you if you are white and one of you’re not.
If you look at the prison system there’s two Pennsylvanias
If you look at the employment situation, unemployment rate, look at health care there are two Pennsylvanias.
So, I think we need to get out of denial and recognize that we’re, we have a problem here and that it a problem that obviously effects people of color.
But it effects all of the rest of us, because it says something about the society and the political system and the economy that we operate in that it is not operarting on all cylinders unless everybody is afforded an equal opportunity; then our system is not working.
So we all have a self interest a vested interest in making this as fair a society as we can make it.
We’re not there yet.
News Talk WMPT and talkwilliamsport.com will be in attendance on Wednesday for the press availability with Governor Wolf and Secretary Levine in Harrisburg.
