Why Are Black Male Doctors Still So Scarce In America?
The fact that Black males comprised only 3.1% of medical school enrollment for the 1978-79 school year according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) probably isn’t that alarming. After all, it was 1978 – Jimmy Carter was President. Dallas and Grease had just been released, and I was only seven. The shocking and demoralizing realization though is that the comparable stat for the 2019-20 year is actually lower at 2.9% (or nearly unchanged at 3.4% for the “alone or in combination statistic” that includes those identifying with another race as well).
How could it be that over the past forty years with all our “progress” on issues of racial inequity and injustice that that number is actually worse now than then? Indeed, for those who felt the election of a Black president was clear proof that America had moved beyond racism, this single sobering statistic is just one of many to the contrary. NPR analyzed this issue in their 2015 article “There Were Fewer Black Men in Medical School in 2014 Than In 1978.”
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What are your thoughts on it Vespa?
think you’re annoying
However I will in future ( after your advice ) tone it down to LESS ANNOYING.
You have obviously not heard of the saying "the exception that proves the rule".
The fact that Black males comprised only 3.1% of medical school enrollment for the 1978-79 school year according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) probably isn’t that alarming. After all, it was 1978 – Jimmy Carter was President. Dallas and Grease had just been released, and I was only seven. The shocking and demoralizing realization though is that the comparable stat for the 2019-20 year is actually lower at 2.9% (or nearly unchanged at 3.4% for the “alone or in combination statistic” that includes those identifying with another race as well).
How could it be that over the past forty years with all our “progress” on issues of racial inequity and injustice that that number is actually worse now than then? Indeed, for those who felt the election of a Black president was clear proof that America had moved beyond racism, this single sobering statistic is just one of many to the contrary. NPR analyzed this issue in their 2015 article “There Were Fewer Black Men in Medical School in 2014 Than In 1978.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danabrownlee/2020/08/11/why-are-black-male-doctors-still-so-scarce-in-america/?sh=ad4db5127c2e
I also havent a clue why you would hic, or cough on so many of your posts.
Are you pretending to be drunk, or ill?
That would I suppose be an explanation for your constant gibberish.