Black Diabetic Lives Matter

The recent killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN, among many other senseless deaths, has highlighted issues of endemic racism in America and prompted an examination and evaluation of practices across many different institutions. Systems of structural racism exist that includes the totality of ways in which societies further racial discrimination through mutually reinforcing systems of housing, education, employment, earnings, benefits, credit, media, health care, and criminal justice.

Although the health care sector endeavors to be …