The societal injustices that plague the US took center stage in 2020. They played out in the murders of unarmed Black people by police officers and disproportionate low-income, Black, and brown lives lost in the US to COVID-19. Galvanizers from all walks of life insisted that Black Lives Matter were deemed terrorists instead of activists calling for equity and justice. While disparities in health and health care have existed since the founding of this country, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the medical injustices faced by US racial/ethnic minority groups to the forefront. Since race is a social and political construct, one must wonder why Black people in the US are dying from COVID-19,¹ cancer, and heart disease at disproportionately higher rates than any other racial/ethnic group. The American Medical Association has recognized racism as a public health threat.² Without systemic racism, there are no racial/ethnic health disparities.

困扰美国的社会不公正现象在 2020 年占据了中心位置。它们在警察谋杀手无寸铁的黑人以及在美国因 COVID-19 丧生的低收入、黑人和棕色人种不成比例的事件中上演。各行各业的积极分子坚持认为，黑人的命也是命是恐怖分子，而不是呼吁公平和正义的活动家。虽然自建国以来就存在健康和医疗保健方面的差异，但 COVID-19 大流行已将美国种族/族裔少数群体面临的医疗不公正现象推到了最前沿。由于种族是一种社会和政治结构，人们一定想知道为什么美国的黑人会死于 COVID- ^19，1癌症和心脏病的发病率比任何其他种族/族裔群体高得多。美国医学协会已将种族主义视为公共健康威胁。²没有系统性种族主义，就没有种族/族裔健康差异。