Racism Embedded in Social Institutions

In a world full of fear the only thing keeping our society together right now are health care professionals. Doctors' and nurses' main priority is to help their patients and yet Mr. Carson addresses the fact that they still discriminate against some of their patients. At first, I was not convinced. How could someone who saves lives for their career treat patients differently? There is no probable answer to this question, besides that racism is embedded in ways we can't control. Now there are certain situations and certain people who are purposely racist, and outright disrespectful. But the idea that health care workers are treating women of color with less respect reflects how our society treats black women. The intersectionality of being both black and a woman puts people into two groups that are viewed as inferior and weak. Yet how does this correlate with being treated poorly by your own doctor? My thoughts are similar to Mr. Carons in that the answer should be traced back to our countries history. Black women were repeatedly raped and mistreated for years and are still being treated as less than. Our country is embedded in racism as our founding fathers rapped black women and forced black people to be their slaves. 

With our countries foundation, it's practically impossible to reach our goal of treating everyone equally. Men have been the dominant gender for all of our lives, and they still are because most communities find discomfort in varying situations. For example, some people are afraid of a woman president because we have never had a woman in charge of the United States. Change does not come easy to our country and that is why we still have systematic oppression. 

Systemic oppression is clearly shown by how doctors are treating black women. Black women have always been viewed as inferior and society has embedded that into people's lives so much that doctors are not treating their patients equally. I don't believe doctors have malice intent against black women but rather they are influenced by how black women have been treated in the past. I am not giving doctors an excuse, but rather challenging Mr. Carson's view that is doctors purposely mistreat black people. I think we are all influenced by systematic racism and sexism in ways, we don't even notice. Our society influences the way we treat each other, sometimes this is a good thing and other times it can lead to bigotry and hatred towards a group of people.