BREAKING: Unsurprisingly, some fragile white male SNOWFLAKE members of the @AmerMedicalAssn, are highly triggered by the racial progress represented in the AMA’s strategic plan on health equity.
And now they are in the midst of a full blown tantrum 👀🙄
...Seriously?
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And now they are in the midst of a full blown tantrum 👀🙄
...Seriously?
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https://twitter.com/cjstreed/status/1397955181850120194
2/ The good news? The white supremacist element of the AMA has FINALLY showed their hands.
Spoiler: the issue is not just in JAMA leadership....
It’s everywhere.
These toxic ppl have control of our field and will fight to keep it at any cost.
...That’s what this tantrum is.
Spoiler: the issue is not just in JAMA leadership....
It’s everywhere.
These toxic ppl have control of our field and will fight to keep it at any cost.
...That’s what this tantrum is.
3/ Btw, we’ve seen what they’ve done with their control of Medicine to date:
Let Black and brown people die in droves without a PEEP... and exploited Black and brown healthcare workers and trainees for their own economic and sociopolitical gain.
Let Black and brown people die in droves without a PEEP... and exploited Black and brown healthcare workers and trainees for their own economic and sociopolitical gain.
4/ THEN, to add insult to injury, far from taking actual ACCOUNTABILITY for selling Black & brown folks up the river for personal gain, they have the unmitigated gall to pretend not to know what we’re talking about.
🙄🙄🙄
Please.
🙄🙄🙄
Please.
5/ This is a classic gaslight.
Don’t fall for it.
Don’t fall for it.
6/ I’m actually looking forward to this debate.
Why?
Because it’s out there now.
We haven’t been able to fight them for so long because they’ve strictly been doing this crap behind closed doors in rooms they make sure to keep us out of
(and we both know it)
Why?
Because it’s out there now.
We haven’t been able to fight them for so long because they’ve strictly been doing this crap behind closed doors in rooms they make sure to keep us out of
(and we both know it)
7/ But the Pandemic has shone a spotlight on Medicine’s crooked ways.
The whole country is watching us now.
That means people OF ALL RACES in this country now know what is happening.
And we’ve had enough.
The whole country is watching us now.
That means people OF ALL RACES in this country now know what is happening.
And we’ve had enough.
8/ As for me, after almost 14 years of:
✅ surviving the relentless racial trauma of the Academy...
✅ watching racist Medicine traumatize the students and trainees of color coming behind me...
✅ surviving the relentless racial trauma of the Academy...
✅ watching racist Medicine traumatize the students and trainees of color coming behind me...
9/ ✅ powerlessly watching them elude women of color from leadership...but reward mediocre white men for simply existing
10/ ✅ Being forced into an excruciating natural delivery because white doctors didn’t believe me when I—a fellow PHYSICIAN, who has delivered over 50 babies myself—told them repeatedly that the epidural failed
11/ ✅ sending my white husband to our daughter’s doctor’s appointments exclusively because we both realized he is consistently treated better than I am by other docs...despite us BOTH being doctors ourselves.
12/ ✅ After watching them blame Black ppl for the poor health which those in power engineered over hundreds of years through racist law and policy past and PRESENT (vaccine policy being a current example 👀👀👀)
13/ ✅ after sitting through endless medical lectures which teach that Black and brown bodies are inherently diseased
14/ ✅ After proudly serving on the frontline of this Pandemic in one of the worst hit zip codes on the South Side of Chicago, risking my own life and the life of my family to stay true to my OATH
15/ ✅ After holding the hands of patients drawing their last breaths after getting lost in a racist medical system which treats them as subhuman—knowing the outcome would be different if they weren’t poor and Black
16/ ✅ After a Pandemic in which white suicide numbers dropped almost by half whereas Black suicide numbers went up by almost 100%...
...because many would rather die than continue to live under this society’s relentless oppression of our bodies and minds
I can’t stay quiet.
...because many would rather die than continue to live under this society’s relentless oppression of our bodies and minds
I can’t stay quiet.
17/ Here it is plainly:
We already figured out that Medicine is fine with leaving Black and brown folks for dead. The Pandemic proved that.
So trust me when I tell you:
I and my people have. Nothing. Left. To. Lose.
That’s the context we are coming from.
We already figured out that Medicine is fine with leaving Black and brown folks for dead. The Pandemic proved that.
So trust me when I tell you:
I and my people have. Nothing. Left. To. Lose.
That’s the context we are coming from.
18/ While the people who co-sign this ridiculous letter pound on their chest and whine about what vocabulary word we used to describe our destruction...we are fighting to LIVE.
They are more upset about vocabulary words than our deaths.
Our battles are not the same.
They are more upset about vocabulary words than our deaths.
Our battles are not the same.
19/ With that being said...
When these people are FINALLY ready to tell and HEAR the Truth, we can have an adult conversation.
Otherwise...go sit in time out.
When these people are FINALLY ready to tell and HEAR the Truth, we can have an adult conversation.
Otherwise...go sit in time out.
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