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The last edition of California Medicare News began a discussion on race and racism, exploring how and when the concept of race was created and defining racism and its differential effects on people of color. This article is Part II of that discussion,focusing specifically on racism’s corollary, white privilege. Again, with the growing diversity...

Part of being an effective advocate for California’s diverse Medicare population is becoming aware of and actively addressing racism. In the U.S., race classifications have a profound impact on people’s daily life experiences, and for people in the “non-white” race classifications, these impacts are mostly negative. An earlier edition of Diversity Connections which focused...