But Maryland’s governor Wes Moore acknowledged that we have too many people with behavioral health challenges behind bars, and that “it’s hard to quantify all of the ways in which America’s history of racism and segregation continues to harm our communities.” He had made his own inferences as a Black kid in 1982, when his father died from a rare but treatable virus called acute epiglottitis. “I know firsthand what happens when people are treated differently in our medical system,” he told me. “I watched my father die when I was just three years old because he didn’t receive the treatment that
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