Tim Scott says ‘America is not a racist country’ – the data says otherwise | Mona Chalabi

Datasets consistently show racial disparities, from the healthcare system to the criminal justice system. Those gaps are wide and persistent

His choice of words was categorical. When Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, responded to Joe Biden's speech to Congress last week, he said: America is not a racist country."

But racial disparities exist in the US healthcare system, its criminal justice system, its educational system and its economic system. Those gaps are wide. They are persistent. And, in some cases, racial disparities have grown over time rather than narrowed.