AMA missed chance to save black people decades of suffering

mantic

I'm going to try once again, to explain why black folks, most black folks, are angry. In the process, I hope you'll understand why the civil rights movement existed and why the conversation about race must continue:

Last week, quietly and with less fanfare than it deserved, the American Medical Association apologized for excluding black doctors from their group for the past century.

May I be allowed to echo the words of the author - I hope you'll understand why the civil rights movement existed and why the conversation about race must continue

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080712/BLOG08/80712032

If we cannot talk about it, how can we be about it.

Read the article. Please. Then ask yourself, what if?
I personally do not want sympathy, reparations, etc. I want awareness, understanding, appreciation, from all sides.

We are ALL facing a much bigger, un-seen enemy. It threatens ALL of us.
It is happening RIGHT NOW and the window of opportunity to defeat this enemy is closing very very fast.