Summary: Racial Discrimination In Health Care
Initially when I began reading the first article written by Esposito (2016), I immediately noticed a theme which resonated throughout the entire article. The health care industry has been presented with a difficult conundrum where people are recognizing the lack of diversity in the industry. According to Esposito (2016), “Boosting the diversity of providers in the U.S. health care industry could be a tool for bridging the gap” (n.p.) There seems to be a lack of African-America health professionals spanning across the health industry, which concerns one of the board members of the Association of Black Health Professionals. Discrimination in the health care system is prevalent, whether or not people realize the reality of the situation. This
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In general, distinctions between white and black are fairly rigid in the United States, and many people become uneasy when they are unable to categorize individuals” (p. 191). Dolezal is met with mutinous outrages by the media since she was not able to understand where she fit into the community, whether she had a long lost hereditary connection to the African community or not. There is a similar story in Martin & Nakayama where a young girl had been categorized as black on her passport, but when she arrived in Louisiana, the officials did not recognize her as black but as white. Unfortunately when society uses stereotyping, there can be a lot of ramification which lead to mass hysteria directed towards the individual. According to Martin & Nakayama, society attempts to “make sense out of the overwhelming amount of information” received where society attempts to “categorize and generalize” a person by the color of their skin (p. 210). Dolezal should have quickly taken a genetic test done to prove that she had a small percent of African in her gene pool. Diversity in the NAACP should be more readily accepted, even if it means that an individual like Dolezal had to get a genomic test completed to verify the validity of her privilege. Every organization should be willing to have a diversified team of individuals, so they are able to recognize the realities of each culture, which in turn endorses cultural
In general, distinctions between white and black are fairly rigid in the United States, and many people become uneasy when they are unable to categorize individuals” (p. 191). Dolezal is met with mutinous outrages by the media since she was not able to understand where she fit into the community, whether she had a long lost hereditary connection to the African community or not. There is a similar story in Martin & Nakayama where a young girl had been categorized as black on her passport, but when she arrived in Louisiana, the officials did not recognize her as black but as white. Unfortunately when society uses stereotyping, there can be a lot of ramification which lead to mass hysteria directed towards the individual. According to Martin & Nakayama, society attempts to “make sense out of the overwhelming amount of information” received where society attempts to “categorize and generalize” a person by the color of their skin (p. 210). Dolezal should have quickly taken a genetic test done to prove that she had a small percent of African in her gene pool. Diversity in the NAACP should be more readily accepted, even if it means that an individual like Dolezal had to get a genomic test completed to verify the validity of her privilege. Every organization should be willing to have a diversified team of individuals, so they are able to recognize the realities of each culture, which in turn endorses cultural