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How racism makes us sick | David R. Williams

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🗓️ 24 October 2017

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Why does race matter so profoundly for health? David R. Williams developed a scale to measure the impact of discrimination on well-being, going beyond traditional measures like income and education to reveal how factors like implicit bias, residential segregation and negative stereotypes create and sustain inequality. In this eye-opening talk, Williams presents evidence for how racism is producing a rigged system -- and offers hopeful examples of programs across the US that are working to dismantle discrimination.



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This TED Talk features public health sociologist David R. Williams, recorded live at TEDMed 2016.

0:49.0

An article in the Yale Alumni magazine told the story of Clyde Murphy, a black man who was a member of the class of 1970.

1:01.0

Clyde was a success story.

1:05.0

After Yale and a law degree from Columbia, Clyde spent the next 30 years as one of America's top civil rights lawyers.

1:14.9

He was also a great husband and father. But despite his success, personally and professionally,

1:23.6

Clyde's story had a sad end. In 2010, at the age of 62,

1:32.3

Clyde died from a blood clot in his lung.

1:37.3

Clyde's experience was not unique.

1:43.3

Many of his black classmates from Yale also died young. In fact,

1:49.9

the magazine article indicated that 41 years after graduation from Yale, the black members of

1:58.0

the class of 1970 had a death rate that was three times higher than that

2:03.6

of the average class member. It's stunning. America has recently awakened to a steady drumbeat

2:14.7

of unarmed black men being shot by the police.

2:20.3

What is even a bigger story is that every seven minutes, a black person dies prematurely in the

2:31.3

United States. That is, over 200 black people die every single day who would

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