Posted on 06/29/2021 5:43:56 PM PDT by consult
Dear Sir and Madam,
I read with great disgust your "Organization Strategic Plan to Embed Racial Justice and Advance Health Equity." Seldom have I read a more destructive, divisive, and inflammatory document by a professional organization, and I have never been more ashamed of being associated with the American Medical Association at any time in my career.
The suggestion that our country owes anyone "equity" because of "past injustices" is revolting. My family arrived in this country in 1961. We have not been a party to any of the injustices that occurred so many decades ago, yet you hold my family, my colleagues, and me in the same light that you hold the cruelest slaveholder. How dare you say that I, a person who is forced to answer on a census form as being white/Caucasian, but who on a different question answers Hispanic/Latino/Cuban, should be in anyway held responsible for those who traded slaves and the African chieftains who willingly sold their tribesmen and women to the Europeans four hundred years ago?
How dare you say that I, and every one of my colleagues who have spent our lives treating the poor, minorities, majorities, and anyone else who may stumble into our emergency rooms, legally or not, without bias or favor, and without any chance of being reimbursed for our training and our efforts, should be thought of as members of an oppressive consortium designed to inflict evil or inequity to those who we selflessly treat?
How dare you join the countless number of camouflaged communists who furtively and purposely try to confuse those around them by conflating equity with equality? Ours is a nation built on the premise of equal standing under the law and only that. Everything else is to be achieved through excellence, dedication, training, and hard work.
Equity, on the other hand, is achieved by fiat, by taking from some and giving it to others at the point of a gun. Few better ruses exist for the state control of the means of production than through the illusory promise of achieving equity instead of equal standing under the law. This is a dangerous track you are entering from which you and the social system you seek may never be able to return.
You claim that we live in a land that was taken from Native Americans hundreds of years ago. That may be so, but you neglect that the same is true of all other civilizations on earth. The Babylonians invaded Israel. The Norwegians invaded England. The Visigoths invaded Rome. Rome invaded Egypt and North Africa. The Turks invaded Constantinople. The Mongols invaded Europe. The Germans invaded Russia. The Russians starved their people. The Germans committed holocaust upon the Jews. The Calusas ransacked and sacrificed their neighboring tribes. The Caribes attacked and imprisoned the Taínos. The Mayans continuously conquered each other and tore their victims' hearts out while they were still beating. Mao starved 69 million people and the People's Republic of China killed millions with their latest virus.
Every single civilization, even those in Africa and the Far East, have conquered and been conquered. It is a fact of life and a staple of history. Your skewed and biased view of the events that took place between the Europeans and Native Americans while ignoring every other injustice carried out throughout history upon the very groups against which you point an accusatory finger is ignorant, hypocritical, and insulting to the 100% of us living Americans who played no part in the invasion nor were victims of the conquests.
You have abused your position as the self-proclaimed purveyor of the medical profession to promote a self-proclaimed social(ist) agenda against the will of so many of those whom you falsely claim to represent.
I will oppose you with all my being, all my strength, my intellect, and my voice. I will oppose you from here to the ends of the earth. I will oppose you because of your disgusting abuse of the great privilege that has been bestowed upon you, and because of the great insult you asperse upon me by suggesting that I carry anything other than love, charity, and good will towards every human being that I meet and have treated in my 30 years of practice as a physician.
There is a magnificent document whose signers pledged their Lives, their Fortunes, and their Sacred Honor to a cause much greater than themselves. Today, I pledge the same in opposition of you.
Here's to seeing the end of your filthy, disgusting, and vile organization.
Julio Gonzalez, M.D., J.D. Former Florida State Representative Former Congressional Candidate An orthopaedic surgeon and lawyer living in Venice, Florida.
now there’s finally a MD i could vote for, too bad i don’t live in fla.
I know how to create “health equity.”
On the day a person turns 30 they are shipped to the ovens (except for the special people, of course).
And don’t think for a minute they wouldn’t consider it.
Wish he would have made a clear point that its completely immoral to hold people living today responsible for what society ended 150 years ago. At a great expense of lives, no less.
This is about being paid for doing nothing.
The primary goal of the deep state AMA is to drive the middle class into poverty by charging outrageous prices for bumbling, inadequate medical care.
To All with Similar Concerns: I have never read a more cogent paper concerning these issues.
Please continue with the Good Work, Free Republic, and send a copy of this to Tom at Judicial Work.
Personally, I have lived in the USA and a number of other places in the world and I have never, ever, found a country with the freedoms wehave as citizens of the USA.
If you don’t like what we have here in terms of political, religious, spiritual and personal values, please leave and do NOT come back. As a country with citizens from all over the world we will continue to adjust and change laws, etc., but we will not be “killers” of our own... though we acknowledge death may not be a decision we make and the end may come quietlyy as the fog or as dramatically as a bullet.
The goal of many people in this country is to live rent free, have free health care, have all their bills paid, receive tax refunds, do nothing productive for society or family or themselves, receive reparations (just to name some desires) and have society give them free booze and drugs. democrats and rinos agree.
Oh; but you are now the beneficiary of all the greatness built by blacks before you got here. (See list below.)
ML/NJ
I’m sick of them and the American college of physicians. It’s why I’m no longer a member.
Great letter!
Very good!
I like this guy.
Outstanding!
Published in JAMA I hope ?
Bttt.
Saving the letter to send on...
I love this.
I just bought his Coronalessons book.
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