The time for a federal racial equity stimulus package is now
OPINION: Out of the urgent need to decouple America’s vision of opportunity from historic racism and oppression, this moment calls for Congress to advance a multi-year federal racial equity stimulus package
John H. Jackson (Photo by Zach Gibson/Getty Images)
The story of America is the power of common people coming together around a vision of opportunity, democracy, and a better way of life for generations to come. However, from our earliest beginnings, that vision was executed with instruments of brutal and legalized oppression, heavily fueled by racial bias, which for centuries has metastasized through every system of American life: healthcare, education, employment, policing, faith, technology, and infrastructure.