Racial outcome disparities extend across every life domain.

Evidence

America isn’t exactly like the extreme examples of Nazi Germany or apartheid South Africa, but we do live in a country where, every day, black people confront the damning reality that we are less valued. The data are crystal clear. African Americans suffer chronic double-digit unemployment. We lead the nation in rates of heart disease, cancer, HIV/AIDS. Nearly 1 million of the 2.4 million Americans in prison are black. When we think about the differences between whites and blacks in high school and college graduation rates, in mortality rates, in access to health care, in levels of wealth, in salary differences with comparable education, in the childhood poverty rate, we can see that in this country, white people, particularly those with money, matter more than others. It has been this way since the very day this country was founded. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 78