Racial discrimination does exist within society and its institutions. Tim Wise presented a statistical study that in 2006, the number of race based housing discrimination were at the highest they’ve ever been. Another study showed that “between 1991 and 2000, there were almost one million black people in this country who died, who would not have died had they merely been white and had the average health care quality and access of the typical white person in this country, had they been living in neighborhoods, like white neighborhoods, in which the levels of exposure to toxicity had been as low as it is in the typical white neighborhood, as opposed to excess exposure to toxics, pollutants, etc. in black and brown spaces”. When the one million
