Posted on 02/26/2023 9:18:01 AM PST by devane617
I’ll never forget my parents’ reaction when I was accepted to the University of California at San Francisco’s medical school. Having attended segregated schools, my mother and father were thrilled that their daughter would attend a fully integrated, top-tier institution.
When I graduated with a medical degree in 1973, a Black woman in a class of mostly White men, there was a real sense that the days of obsessing over skin color and making race-based assumptions about our fellow human beings was finally fading — and, hopefully, soon gone for good.
Apparently not. That racial obsession has come rushing back — in academia, politics, business and even in my beloved medical profession. But now it’s coming from the opposite direction. The malignant false assumption that Black people are inherently inferior intellectually has been traded in for the malignant false assumption that White people are inherently racist.
That is the basic message conveyed by “implicit bias training,” which is now mandatory for California physicians; it is a message that I believe is harmful both to physicians and patients. There is a sad irony in all this, because the misguided focus on racism is intended to improve the health and well-being of Black patients in particular.
The law, which took effect last year, includes other bias targets, including gender identity, age and disability. But in practice, such training — a mainstay of the diversity and inclusion industry, worth an estimated $3.4 billion in 2020 — is overwhelmingly about race.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
A good letter. Too bad none of your local papers saw it fit to post or print it.
Aunt Thomasina!
“It would be great to have a free and fair discussion on the intelligence of black people.”
That discussion should also include work ethic. So many ppl that have an excellent work ethic need not be “college educated” (two terms that disgust me anymore) or be at a particular level of “intelligence” (another disgusting word). “Intelligence” has been sodomized in this day, like so many other terms, that actually meant something in the past, but no longer do.
“Thank you for visiting Watoga Emergency Services. We are currently experiencing longer than expected wait times...”
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Watoga_Emergency_Services
“someone made a general statement that you are incapable of performing every day tasks? “
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I get this feeling whenever I dial a doctor’s office and get the recording that if this is an emergency call dial 911. Duh..
Thank you.
So you’re with the democrats and woke.
“So you’re with the democrats and woke.”
Okay, I’ve got to know, what did I say that led to that comment?
While you may think that black “leaders” do not necessarily represent the majority of black people, it seems to me that the majority of black people pay more attention to the Jesse Jackson’s and Al Sharpton’s, than to the Walter William’s or Thomas Sowell’s.
That you agree with them.
“That you agree with them.”
Well, you got me there. Just for the heck of it, how about taking a look at my reply to another comment in post 19.
Yeah. That Ami Horowitz video is great.
she doesn’t look very black in that picture ...
Oh, for crying out loud.
She is an American. We need to stop profiling on the basis of race.
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