Black and Native groups share bottom-ranked outcomes yet rarely achieve political solidarity

Evidence

Today, African Americans and Native Americans share the highest incarceration and poverty rates in the country, as well as the lowest high school graduation numbers. Both groups appear at the bottom of a range of health and well-being indicators, and both have suffered high rates of serious illness during the Covid-19 pandemic. And yet the two groups have often struggled to find solidarity, a painful legacy of the way they learned to regard each other in the nation’s formative years. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 461

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s prior framing about how slavery as foundational creates patterns of inter-group relation; also echoes the reader’s own work on racial hierarchy perpetuation.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what specific mechanisms have kept Black and Native solidarity from forming, beyond the Hopewell-era framing described here?