That is correct. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to both our witnesses today. I'm going to direct my questions initially to you, Senator Sinclair, because of the fact that you touched on a very interesting definition of systemic racism.
I have a quote here from Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton from their 1967 book, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation, which introduces the concept of institutional racism. I'm wondering whether you think this captures what you're trying to get at. They say:
When white terrorists bomb a black church and kill five black children, that is an act of individual racism, widely deplored by most segments of the society. But when in that same city—Birmingham, Alabama—five hundred black babies die each year because of the lack of proper food, shelter and medical facilities, and thousands more are destroyed and maimed physically, emotionally and intellectually because of conditions of poverty and discrimination in the black community, that is a function of institutional racism.
Does that essentially capture what you're trying to get at?