Today, African Americans and Native Americans share the highest incarceration and poverty rates in the country, as well as the lowest high school graduation numbers. Both groups appear at the bottom of a range of health and well-being indicators, and both have suffered high rates of serious illness during the Covid-19 pandemic.12 And yet the two groups have often struggled to find solidarity, a painful legacy of the way they learned to regard each other in the nation’s formative years.
