At the risk of seeming repetitive, I will go back to my earlier response about the patterns and systems that affect all Black veterans. That would be systemic anti-Black racism.
I recommend looking for vulnerable nodes of decision points or processes that are especially susceptible to the influence of individual racism or systemic racism and finding ways to reinforce those nodes to either create more transparency and accountability or put guardrails on that somewhere, so that if, in fact, there is a force of systemic or individual racism playing on the decision being made, there is a degree of resiliency against that. It's more to find those vulnerable areas and to improve outcomes by making sure there are guardrails, for lack of a better term, or reinforcements against—
