Racism rather than race drives the unequal disease burden on Black Americans

Evidence

We have long understood the crisis of poor health outcomes for Black Americans as a problem of race. But this implies an inferiority of Black bodies or Black culture. What happened to Dr. Moore speaks to the pervasive, long-running racial bias in the U.S. healthcare system, an erroneous set of deep-seated beliefs formulated during slavery and perpetuated over the decades since by social, political, and economic inequality. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 978

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharpens the race-versus-racism distinction that the reframing argument depends on.