Rochelle Walensky, M.D., director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), stated “racism is a serious public health threat that directly affects the well-being of millions of Americans.”
The CDC launched a web portal, Racism and Health, which explains what it means by “racism.”
“Racism is a system consisting of structures, policies, practices, and norms – that assigns value and determines opportunity based on the way people look or the color of their skin,” the web portal states. “This results in conditions that unfairly advantage some and advantage others throughout society.”
However, new income figures revealed in the U.S. Census Bureau 2018 American Community Survey paint a different picture of race in the nation. A number of households “of color,” mostly Asian-Americans, outpace “White-Americans” in median household income (see graph below).
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