re: Interesting Article On Lack Of Black Medical Students

Straight outta Hopkins

What really concerns me is the lack of black folk going into law enforcement.

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I think that I have posted this before, but the subconscious decision to drop out of school is made in 3rd grade. It is the make or break literacy grade.

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Man. That is just a heartbreaking reality. My friend teaches 9th grade in Shreveport at my old high school. Like most public schools there's a hierarchy of curricula, he teaches the lowest one. Some of his kids at this Shreveport high school have never seen Bossier City - literally the next town over. Some didn't know the Red River was that big body of water on the East side of town. How do you teach kids about government/civics when the concept of Europe might as well be a foreign planet?

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Really? This is what we want?
And eliminating the knowledge of who is high risk vs low risk for various disease, how is that going to affect the tide of unnecessary medical testing?

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Trust me, once the med students get into clinical rotations, things like this become very apparent, very fast...whether or not you learned it in a book.

That said, your point is well taken and it is a shame that we are so shallow as a culture that being offended somehow gives you rights to quite literally hide reality.

There are a multitude of reasons as to why this is the case. Some have been mentioned in this thread. I don't agree that a subconsciously decides to dropout of school at 3rd grade though, but I do agree that lack of parents owning the responsibility of a child's education is a big, big problem. They feel that it is the teacher's job to teach their children to read when in fact, it is the parent's job. Work ethic and drive have more to do with an individual's success than anything though. For instance, I had a cousin that dropped out of med school. He came from a middle class family with both parents. He just didn't have the drive and discipline it took to do it. On the other hand a good friend from high school graduated top 5 in his med school class. He came from a single parent home. His mother had six children total. They were poor and his brothers were low level, petty drug dealers. He was special though and everyone knew it. He had a great support system of people doing everything they could to help him succeed and he took advantage of it and did.

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facts like what that graph show are "racist".

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Absolutely, facts are racist.

This graph is appalling

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it's on the feet of the parents

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Of course. I don't think it's genetic like some of these white supremacists, though.

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Of course. I don't think it's genetic like some of these white supremacists, though.

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Well at least you get it. Hard work can overcome almost all adversities.

that's so fricked up.