The United States is no exception. While much good and important work has been done to eliminate racism, it persists here. People of color tend to have less adequate access to health insurance and healthcare than whites. Infant mortality rates are 2.5 times higher for blacks than for whites and 1.5 times higher for Native Americans than for whites. Communities of people of color frequently bear a disproportionate share of adverse environmental burdens, such as nearby landfills.
Immigrants often encounter discrimination in employment, housing and education.
Professional sports teams, colleges and high schools use caricatures of Native Americans as mascots. People of color are disproportionately at the bottom of the income distribution curve. Antiracism training is designed to help people develop an in-depth understanding of the nature and structure of racism and of ways to dismantle it. The training involves dialogue, experiential exercises, and instruction. What You Can Do Churches are challenged to initiate one new program on behalf of children and youth during the Year of the Child.