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LRB-1369/1
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2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
February 18, 2021 - Introduced by Representatives Stubbs, Drake, Shelton, Hebl,
Milroy, Andraca, Snodgrass, Neubauer, Ortiz-Velez, S. Rodriguez,
Cabrera, Sinicki, Goyke, Conley, Haywood, Considine, Spreitzer, Emerson,
Billings, Vining, Baldeh, Subeck, Anderson, Hong, Shankland, Hesselbein,
Bowen, L. Myers, Brostoff and Hintz, cosponsored by Senators Johnson,
Carpenter, Wirch, L. Taylor, Roys, Bewley, Erpenbach and Larson.
Referred to Committee on Rules.
AJR8,1,2 1Relating to: proclaiming that racism and racial inequity constitute a health crisis
2in Wisconsin.
AJR8,1,33 Whereas, race is a social construct with no biological basis; and
AJR8,1,74 Whereas, racism is a social system with multiple dimensions, including
5individual racism, which is internalized or interpersonal, and systemic racism,
6which is institutional or structural, and is a system of structuring opportunity and
7assigning value based on the social interpretation of how one looks; and
AJR8,1,108 Whereas, systemic racism unfairly disadvantages some individuals and
9communities, unfairly advantages other individuals and communities, and depletes
10the strength of the whole society through the waste of human resources; and
AJR8,1,1211 Whereas, racism causes persistent racial discrimination in housing, education,
12employment, transportation, and criminal justice; and
AJR8,1,1513 Whereas, Black unemployment rates are consistently double or triple those of
14white workers in Wisconsin regardless of overall economic conditions, and Black
15median incomes lag far behind those of white households; and
AJR8,2,2
1Whereas, Wisconsin's racial disparity in high school graduation is the worst in
2the nation; and
AJR8,2,43 Whereas, Black or African-American people constitute less than 7 percent of
4state residents but 29 percent of people in jail and 41 percent of people in prison; and
AJR8,2,65 Whereas, Wisconsin's Black families are 5.3 times more likely than white
6families to live in poverty; and
AJR8,2,97 Whereas, of 44 states for which data was available, Wisconsin ranked 41st in
8child well-being for Black children and showed the largest gap in well-being among
9those states between Black children and white children; and
AJR8,2,1110 Whereas, in Wisconsin, Black people are 1.8 times more likely than white
11people to go without health insurance; and
AJR8,2,1512 Whereas, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services determined that Black
13people and Native Americans have the highest excess death rates at every stage in
14the life course, and the infant mortality rate of non-Hispanic Black infants is the
15highest in the nation; and
AJR8,2,1716 Whereas, the infant mortality rate for infants of non-Hispanic Black women is
17the highest in the nation; and
AJR8,2,1918 Whereas, an emerging body of research demonstrates that racism is a social
19determinant of health; and
AJR8,2,2220 Whereas, the promotion of healthy communities is directly related to the health
21of individuals and encourages expanding public health support networks to decrease
22racial disparities in health outcomes; and
AJR8,2,2523 Whereas, communities of color are disproportionally impacted by social
24determinants of health, such as increased exposure to lead, poor air quality, lack of
25safe places to walk, bike, or run, and inadequate health education; and
AJR8,3,6
1Whereas, the people of Wisconsin are committed to continuing to use a racial
2equity and social justice lens and approach in our policies, procedures, and projects
3in order to create a robustly anti-racist government and to dismantle institutional
4structural racism that causes the many harms to our community and society,
5including grave and long-term harm to individual and public health; now, therefore,
6be it
AJR8,3,9 7Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That the legislature
8acknowledges that racism is a public health crisis threatening the long-term
9individual and population health of large numbers of people in society; and
AJR8,3,13 10Be it further resolved, That the legislature commits to its past, current, and
11future efforts to confront, condemn, and dismantle racism, to inform public discourse
12on racism, and to continue to implement equitable and anti-racist policies and
13practices to create a justice- and equity-oriented country and society; and
AJR8,3,17 14Be it further resolved, That the legislature commits to continue to support
15the health and racial equity work of the Department of Health Services, local
16departments of health, and local departments, agencies, and organizations devoted
17to promoting public health and racial equity.
AJR8,3,1818 (End)
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