In his remarks, Biden praised Till-Mobley for her courage in ensuring the world would see racism's horrors in her son's maimed body.—Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023But as has often been the case in U.S. history, there are sharp disagreement over racism's persistence and what role the government should have in addressing those issues.—Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 17 June 2023Sometimes the evidence of racism’s history is right underfoot.—USA Today, 17 Aug. 2020
Not speaking about or not gaining knowledge of racism's existence -- that stunts the progress of equality.—S. Mitra Kalita, CNN, 9 July 2020Emerging data shows that COVID-19 disproportionately affects minority communities, likely due to racism’s downstream effects on socioeconomic opportunities, health outcomes and insurance coverage.—Isobel Rosenthal, Scientific American, 17 June 2020Villarosa, a veteran journalist who has covered Black health and wellness for decades, begins her forceful exposure of racism’s toxic effect on the U.S.’s health system by recounting her own personal awakening.—Julia Schimautz, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2022Barrow asked for a definition of critical race theory, which is the study of racism’s effect on societal structures and is usually taught at the graduate level but has become shorthand to describe progressive ideas about race and gender.—Tyler Kingkade, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2022But increasingly, research shows differences based on race don't reflect biology, but instead structural racism's effect on health.