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The police and citizen brutality against Black people, including the murder of George Floyd, has led to a national shift as communities take to the streets in solidarity to speak out against racism and many organizations work to acknowledge and dismantle it. For Cal State East Bay Professor of Public Health Michael Stanton, the effort is personal. 

“As a Black Latino male, I am at greater risk of being innocently accused and incarcerated, workplace discrimination, institutional discrimination, and police violence due to my ethnic background,” said Stanton. “I say this as a public health researcher who knows the relative population risks. And I say this as a parent who knows how these factors might affect the lives of my children.”

Stanton says anti-Black racism permeates not only academia but the entire system in which we live and work. 

“It exists partly due to a brutal and sadistic history that began with the slavery of humans and continued as mass oppression by political forces that sought to dehumanize certain people and profit from their oppression,” said Stanton. “Unfortunately, it continues today due to our complacency in not wanting to address systemic anti-black forces that profit some and rob others of their wealth and well-being.”

According to Stanton, who is also a practicing clinical psychologist, racism appears in behavioral medicine in a myriad of ways including unconsciously blaming Black participants when interventions do not turn out as expected and using white Americans as the primary touchstone and standard ethnic group used to measure and conduct research.

He suggests four main steps to combating the epid