Not Only Police Brutality, Racism Also Occurs In US Health Services

JAKARTA - In the midst of a pandemic, protests demanding justice for racial equality remain loudly shouted. Many say that this shows that their fear of racism there is greater or at least as great as anxiety about the transmission of COVID-19.

Before talking about systemic racism in the US, it helps to get to know what racism is. Racism according to KBBI is racism. According to KBBI, racism is the understanding that one's own race is the most superior race; racism. That's what has happened in the US so far, that the black race feels a gap, even systemically.

Reporting from Vox, Maimuna Majumder, an epidemiologist from Harvard said that police brutality is a public health problem there because of its high percentage of deaths. Just imagine, one out of every 1,000 black males is likely to die from being killed by police in the US.

So if we look at what the world is paying attention to right now, namely the COVID-19 pandemic. As it progressed, it became clear that the black community had a greater risk of catching it. This is also recognized by public health experts, Dr. Uché Blackstock and Dr. Leana Wen in a video shared by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis. They agree that the pandemic that has occurred in the last few months is more vulnerable to minorities because of the many limited facilities for them.

Public health experts @uche_blackstock & @DrLeanaWen agree: Racism is a public health crisis. We must be truthful with the state of systemic racial inequities that have festered in our society for years & are now magnified by # coronavirus. Share their voices. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/FBG6TEf07n

- Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis (@COVIDOversight) June 8, 2020

Siniar VOI this time will discuss clearly about systemic racism, as well as death data which confirms that there is a problem of racism in health services in the US. Hit the listen button and we'll tell the story for you.