Abdul El-Sayed, in an interview on The Root's What's Popular?, says his first goal is ending maternal and infant mortality disparities. He notes Black women die at three to four times the rate of white women in childbirth, Black babies at two to three times the rate, and calls this the focus of his entire career. He also names capital in Black communities, and school funding tied to property values shaped by segregation and redlining, which he calls "insane."
The receipt
- Who
- Abdul El-Sayed
- Where
- interview - The Root's What's Popular? with Ashley Allison at Busboys and Poets,
- Original footage
- The Root · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 54 seconds, unedited within the cut
- Plays
- 135 on Instagram
Read the transcript
I want to end maternal and infant mortality disparities. Black women die at three to four times the rate of white women in childbirth, Black babies die at two to three times the rate. That has been an issue I have been focused on my entire career. We need a real rethink of federal policy if we're serious about solving it. The other one is I want capital in Black communities. And the third, there's no coincidence. that public schools and predominantly black communities tend to be far less funded. You know why? Why? Because the allocation of funding in part is based on property tax. Property tax is a function of property value. Property value is a function of historical segregation that was literally public policy and redlining. So we continue to fund the engine of social mobility based on the history of redlining, which is insane.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.