On silent but deadly killers and racism - Nicholas D. Kristof in NYT:

'Health statistics bear that out. A black newborn in the United States is twice as likely to die in infancy as a white newborn and a black woman is two and a half times as likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth as a white woman.

“Racism is nothing short of a public health crisis,” Michelle A. Williams, the dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, told me. “That reality is palpable not just in the scourge of police violence that disproportionately kills black Americans, but in the vestiges of slavery and segregation that have permeated the social determinants of health.

“Racism has robbed black Americans from benefiting from the advancements they’ve fought for, bled for and died for throughout history. That reality manifests in myriad ways — from underfunded schools to the gutting of health care and social programs, to financial redlining, to mass incarceration, to voter suppression, to police brutality and more. And it is undeniably harming health and prematurely ending black lives.”

The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society said in a statement a few days ago, “Structural racism is more harmful to the health and well-being of children than infectious diseases, including Covid-19.”'

Read the article here.

Police violence is more visible than disenfranchisement from access to health care and health care itself is already a tragedy in the US. But the fact that a newborn in Bangladesh has a higher life expectancy than a black boy born today in the US should be telling.
If your life expectancy is 15 or 20 years less because you are not white we should know enough.
And by the way, huge discrepancies in life expectancy between countries are equally disturbing.