Dr. Marilyn Singleton expressed frustration over claims that racism is the primary cause of health issues in Black communities, arguing that it undermines personal agency.
She criticized Dr. Uché Blackstock and Dr. L. Ebony Boulware for politicizing and drawing incomplete conclusions from their research.
“This sort of thing really makes my blood boil,” Singleton said. (Trending: Transgender Actor ‘Purposefully Misgendered’ By Airline Employee)
“My parents and I grew up in segregated neighborhoods and we did all right for ourselves.”
“[I]ndividuals are only responsible for about 20% of what makes them healthy. The other 80% are these systemic factors that Dr. Boulware and her colleagues studied in this very, very important research that needs to inform how, you know, communities and resources are given,” Blackstock said.
“This sort of proclamation based on a study with admitted limitations is itself racist,” Singleton said.
“This attitude infantilizes Black people and robs us of our personal agency. Structural racism does not make a person drink sugary beverages, smoke cigarettes, or eat fried and processed food.”
“The study authors admit that they did not look at individuals, but one city in the southern United States and that ‘causal inferences cannot be drawn.’ Dr. Blackstock’s assertion reeks of politics, not medical science.”
“While we have a legacy of slavery, we also have a legacy of strength and resilience. After all, escaping from slavery required creativity and perseverance,” she added.
Singleton also opposed mandatory implicit bias training for medical professionals and warned against integrating critical race theory into medical education.
“The implicit bias requirement promotes the inaccurate belief that White individuals are naturally racist,” Singleton said.
“This message can be detrimental to medical professionals and their patients as it creates an atmosphere of suspicion and animosity, which goes against the fundamental principle of doing no harm.”
“There is a finite amount of time in residency training to mold a competent surgeon from a fumble-fingered intern. To assume that we can continue to turn out excellent surgeons and simultaneously burden surgical education with the degree of time-consuming indoctrination in anti-racism and DEI demanded by the ACS tool kit is, at best, foolish and futile, and, at worst, dangerous to our patients,” Dr. Richard Bosshardt wrote.
She emphasized the need to address systemic issues without perpetuating separation in communities.
“The government’s ‘obligation’ to cure systemic racism has only served to perpetuate separation and stunt the social and economic growth of black people living in ‘redlined’ communities with policies in the 1960s that discouraged family values,” Singleton said.
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