There I was, recently — at the podiatrist.
There was much worry. I wondered: Was the fix of my phalanges preceded with proper woke protocol.
You can picture this scene for feet. I have news that will warm your heart.
American Universities have partnered to enhance medical education.
A three-year plan’s being bankrolled to the tune of $377,536.
According to its website, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation is “the only national [endowment] dedicated solely to improving the education of health professionals.”
Its mission: “To serve the public’s needs and improve the health of the public.”
Hence, it’s enacted the “Antiracist Transformation (ART) in Medical Education program.”
If I’m accurately adding two and two, whiteness is bad for one’s health.
After all, “antiracism” appears aimed at curtailing Caucasian crappiness.
Courtesy of UCLA Law Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw:
“Antiracism is the active dismantling of systems, privileges, and everyday practices that reinforce and normalize the contemporary dimensions of white dominance. This, of course, also involves a critical understanding of the history of whiteness in America.”
Forbes
The sudden increase in interest has been [Diversity, Equity and Inclusion] and anti-racism is encouraging, there must be a concerted effort to ensure that the…education that is being done doesn’t center whiteness. … [D]EI educators and Anti-Racism teachers must resist the temptation of reducing diversity education in order to appease white emotions.
According to the Smithsonian,
White people are more antiracist as they develop their racial identities. It is important for them to acknowledge their privilege and work towards changing their internalized racism. They also need to interrupt the racism they observe. This means that people of color must recognize the ways in which racism has been internalized.
ART’s webpage sums up the ugliness of us:
Medicine, like all American institutions has been affected by racism.
“Racism,” it asserts, “permeates clinical practice and biomedical research, public health policy, and academic advancement. Its influence on medical education is even more profound.”
Read more about medicine:
Through medical education, racism and biases in medicine can be perpetuated through generations.
ART reckons the R-word’s a “deeply-ingrained reality” of students becoming doctors.
Therefore, the project’s Two-fold goal:
- Enhance the ability of medical schools and other educational institutions to eliminate systemic racism, bias and discrimination in their learning and work environments.
- Encourage shared learning about how to eliminate racism in and between medical schools.
If any institution’s discovered proof of “systemic racism” — that is, a specific instance of racism embedded into a system — it seems the reasonable response would be to make it known and remove the mechanism.
Yet, all entities which confirm the existence of structural racism refuse — the best I can tell — to do so.
Initiatives are more common.
These elite universities offer ART.
- Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University
- University of Saskatchewan, College of Medicine
- Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
- David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles
- Duke University School of Medicine
- George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
- Ohio State University College of Medicine
- University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix
- University of Minnesota Medical School
- University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine
- University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine
As noted by Campus Reform, Columbia released a statement on the “antiracism” endeavor.
Its Vagelos College of Physicians and SurgeonsThis is:
ART is attempting to reproduce a model that was originally created by Icahn School of Medicine in order to eliminate systemic racism, bias and discrimination in work environments and education. It also aims to encourage shared learning within medical schools. … ART brings a systemic point of view to its approach, entailing the creation of a transformative strategy that is continuous, empowers people within the medical school to take action, and responds to the changing world around us.
It’s not Columbia’s first woke rodeo.
As I covered in June, Vagelos’s “anti-bias” guidelines touted “people with uteruses” and insisted that “race is a social construct.”
At the end of July, it launched workshops on “disrupting racism” and microaggression management.
And last month, the college christened a VP of “Humanism, Equity and Antiracism.”
Culture’s getting recarved, and all of medicine’s going under the knife:
Doctor at Medical School suggests hate crime charges against anyone who criticizes scientists in government
Medical School Hosts Seminar on ‘Body Terrorism’ Against ‘Fat LGBTQ+ People’
Breastfeeding Academy Bails on ‘Breasts’ https://t.co/VOpCElORT0
— RedState (@RedState) August 10, 2021
Add ART to your updateThis is the panaply of advancement.
This story, and many others, have been headlines of late.
Biden Wants to Reduce Emissions, but Camilla Parker Bowles Can’t Stop Talking About His Fart https://t.co/VVUON0LQVZ
— Alex Parker (@alexparker1984) November 9, 2021
Let the wind of change blow.
-ALEX
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