Here's the problem with the black face...………. people keep wanting to let slide because it was 35 years ago.
"The revelations about Northam gave many African-Americans a new reason to be distrustful of doctors".
“If you devalue black people, that’s going to impact how you treat black people”. Northam contributed to the oppression and discrimination of Black people in America. It is still being practiced today.
“And not just him, all of the medical professionals connected to the school, to the yearbook ... basically, your slip is showing. If you felt that black people were equal to white people in any way, shape or form, you would not think that this was OK.”
The history of race and medicine includes an experiment conducted in Jim Crow-era Alabama, where hundreds of black men with syphilis were left untreated for decades so government researchers could track the disease’s progress in what came to be called the “Tuskegee syphilis study.”
Other stark examples include Dr. J. Marion Sims, a physician in the 1800s who used enslaved African-American women as his medical subjects, operating on them without anesthesia as he developed a gynecological technique.
African-Americans have long complained of being ignored by doctors and having their concerns downplayed. Several studies over the years have documented bias in medicine, including research showing that
white doctors sometimes think black patients are less likely to feel pain.
This is how some whites think today, remember when they said Michael Brown lowered his head and charged the kop as if he wasn't scared of a bullet?
This is not a matter to take lightly. He needs to go ASAP.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...gotry-in-medicine_us_5c5bbd1de4b08710475aadb0
