[Niteranger68]

It's interesting how minorities forget all about racial quotas when they are seeing medical personnel for serious health issues. Never heard of a black person demanding a black brain surgeon.

[ltc8k6]

Fred Sanford: I’ll do it, but on one condition.

Lamont Sanford: And that is?

Fred Sanford: I want a white dentist.
Lamont Sanford: What did you say?

Fred Sanford: You heard me, I want a white dentist.

Lamont Sanford: Well what makes you think you’re going to get a black dentist?

Fred Sanford: You said it was a free clinic, didn’t you? Where you think you’re gonna find a black dentist? In Beverly Hills?

Lamont Sanford: Wasn’t you the guy who told me once that you didn’t want nothing white but milk?

Fred Sanford: Well my tooth wasn’t hurting then. I want the best available dentist for my tooth. Now just by coincidence, the best dentist schools are of the white people, by the white people, and for the white people. Now don’t it seem likely that the best dentist would be white? White dentist, please?

[Publius6961]

Never heard of a black person demanding a black brain surgeon. ,

By now, after 40+ years, it should be obvious, even to the densest, that reverse discrimination is a two-edged sword; in the legal arena it might seem to "work." In the real world, customers and patients vote with their feet and with their wallets.

Result? Truly competent and excellent minority professionals, and there must be many of them, are (unfairly) tainted with the uncertainty of competence. That's the difference between politics and science, and here is not the only milieu where it appears.