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A Call to Action for Human Services

06/03/20 – As we grieve as a nation, we must confront that the very systems we helped build and operate have enabled, and far too often exacerbated, structural inequities that trace race and income lines. Together, we must bridge this untenable divide by confronting racism and racial disparities.

The unconscionable murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and hundreds of Black men and Black women before them bring into focus the stark inequities and systemic racism that persist today in the systems that are meant to protect people—not harm them. These include not only law enforcement but health, housing, and human services. We need only look to the disproportionate death rates of COVID-19 on communities of color to see just how deeply intertwined these systems are and to find irrefutable evidence of the disproportionate conditions that have been plaguing our communities for too long.

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