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When we fix racism right, we save or recoup the estimated $16 trillion to be lost this century, not including the $2.4 trillion related to health disparities. This money could go to health care for all or universal minimum wage or university.
When we solve racism, there will be no more accelerated (police) violence against people of color, our dog whistle fears will be eliminated, and we can finally start talking about gun control in a substantive way.
When racism is fixed there will no longer be a need to elect a malignant narcissist to comfort the privileged people he frames as victims, which reinforces the false and unnecessary polarization.
When we fix racism, our international policies will make more sense because other peoples will not see America as a hypocritical nation critical of others but unwilling to fix its own deep flaws.
When we solve racism, law enforcement will no longer need or use I Feared for My Life as justification to kill unarmed black people.
When we solve racism, my biracial children will no longer be asked who you are and they will no longer be asked to choose between parents they identify with.
When we fix racism, those countless lives lost to racist terror will not have been in vain.
When we resolve racism, we will finally, finally pay true tribute to our heroes like Martin Luther King Jr., JFK, John Lewis instead of just holding them in rhetorical high regard with a performative signal of virtue.
When we fix racism, black Americans can finally live in peace and white Americans can begin to heal from guilt and both will have reduced health risks and stress from cognitive dissonance and the health effects of mutual fear.
When we fix racism, discussions of reparations will have real, lasting meaning and more relevance.
When we solve racism, we will stop mobilizing billions of dollars to support euro-derived countries disproportionately to darker global neighbors.
When we correct racism, we can begin to address other health inequalities based on gender, language, ability, age, race, religion, and other false barriers.
Because until we fix racism, all Americans will have an unacknowledged traumatic debt owed not only to our ancestors, but also to our offspring.
Until we fix racism, only certain lives matter.
Leslie Gregory is a PA-C specializing in preventive cardiology and executive director of Right to Health.
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