US democratic self-image contradicts its infant mortality and incarceration records

Evidence

The value gap persists, in part, because of our national refusal to remember and our unwillingness to see what is right in front of our eyes. To declare ourselves a bastion of democratic life when black infant mortality is twice that of whites; when the level of inequality between the rich and the poor surpasses that of any other nation in the industrialized world; and when the United States has the highest documented rate of incarceration in the world—such a declaration is galling. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 121

Categorization

• XREF: Black infant mortality twice that of whites and highest incarceration rate ground the value gap in measurable disparities the reader can cite.