Health Inequalities and Cognate Inequities in American Society; Racism, Neoliberalism, and Freedom from Indignity

Abstract

The paper re-examines neoliberal societies' essential characteristics and dignity exposition, arguing that racial injustice represents and inaugurates a systemic culmination. By proceeding with the theoretical framework of neoliberalism's impact on inequality, the study presents racism and its relevance in health and cognate inequalities and association to human security- freedom from indignity. Racial inequality in health and cognate inequities can not be transformed unless the power of neoliberalism is simultaneously contested. The COVID-19 has exposed the adverse effects of a system that has dominated and disproportionately impacted racialized US communities. It has refined confirmation of long-standing structural variations pointing out inadequate policies, budget discrepancies, jeopardizing human security conceptualization. Thus, opening ground for a neoliberalism reversal within the alternative hybrid order. The phenomenon's roots and current issues lie in the realization of capitalism, the morphology of the nation-state, and the generative order of colonialism. The unequal access and comprehensive discrimination make a paradoxical paradigm that the affluent US society is less prosperous. With an ideal approach to skepticism and confusion regarding critical race theory, the legal history, doctrinal race development, and the International Convention on Racial Discrimination, a contemporary racial foundation needs to be developed, reaffirmed, improved, and protected to incorporate the democratic content of the US's principles of legal equality. A rational approach to assess the social welfare system is to examine its significant impact on poverty and racial discrimination. The moral criterion and compulsory economic logic of direct financial benefits associated with poverty policies require considerable determination. The right to health is a fundamental precondition for achieving freedom from indignity contributing to non-violent behavior, legalism, and community improvement. The consolidation of wealth and power in one society could be ground for racial and other exclusivist discourses, and the improper system of governance and, ultimately, society become. Institutional racism, whether implicit or explicit, is often unnoticed or disregarded. Ethnic sensitivity, empowerment, and cultural competence should constitute anti-racism tools of liberation policies to constitute a dignified culture of equality and equity.