US: Dismantle Structures of Racism Now

UN Review of US Record on Racial Justice Should Prompt White House Action

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/08/08/us-dismantle-structures-racism-now

The negative effects of these policies include:\
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The average white family in the US has roughly eight times the wealth of the average Black family, and white college graduates have over seven times more wealth than Black college graduates.\
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Almost two million people are locked up across the United States, with Black people imprisoned at a rate three times higher than white people. Black women are imprisoned at 1.7 times the rate of white women.\
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Discrimination in enforcement of US immigration laws, including the US criminal re-entry statute, which a federal judge found was “enacted with discriminatory purpose” and would not have been enacted absent racial animus, continues unabated.\
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In 2020, the US had an estimated 580,000 unhoused people, 39 percent of whom were Black, even though Black people are only 12 percent of the US total population.\
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Though Black and white people use drugs at similar rates, Black people are imprisoned for drug crimes at five times the rate of white people.\
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Police in the US continue to kill Indigenous, Latinx, and Black people at significantly higher rates, as much as 350 percent more frequently, than white people. Even greater racial disparities attend nonfatal uses of force by police.

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