Senator Chuck Schumer: "Of Course" There is Systemic Racism in America

JOE MADISON: This issue of systemic racism. Does it exist in the United States of America? SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER: Of course. And everywhere. By the way, Joe, the other thing [Mitch] McConnell is avoiding, I hope I'm not, so important, so many things to say. MADISON: Yes. Go ahead. SCHUMER: And so nice to give me a little time. The COVID bill deals with some of this, some of the racial, like for instance: who's on the front lines in the COVID crisis? 44 percent people of color. Okay? So we propose hazard pay ... So even in the COVID bill we deal with some of these issues. Cause everywhere you look—not just law enforcement, health care, education, jobs, housing—the systemic racism is deep. It's always been the poison in America. I've always believed that.