Racism, not race, predicts disease and disability among Black Americans

Evidence

In reality, it’s never been race that predicts the disease and disability that disproportionally afflict Black Americans, but racism. Until we come to terms with the discrimination and inequality in American medicine, Black people will continue to be harmed by the very system that’s supposed to take care of them. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 979

Categorization

• DEFINE: The chapter’s central reframing claim stated in its most direct form.