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Maya2001 -> RE: AMA aplogies to African_American MDs (7/10/2008 8:19:48 AM)
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Changing attitudes and prejudices does not occur overnight...consider that most of the ones that are handling the AMA applications went thru a schooling system that was still segregated, they were raised to believe blacks were inferior so they grew up with the prejudices and their beliefs in place...change will occur faster when that generation retires ,,, it is no different that the number of women in high power positions...it is still harder for women to achieve those ranks because and older generations of males is still calling the shots and they grew up and were raised to believe women are inferior believing a women place is in the home barefoot, pregnant and baking bread and tending to men and not being the decision makers in life...so certain changes will take generations to become effective. I travelled to Florida in 1979 and the drive from Boston to Florida made me very aware of the racism that existed and came as quite a shock to me having grown up here in Canada even the business such as service stations and resterouants in the deeper south that hired afro -americans choose ones with slave like demeanors which to me seemed so weird to see. the afro americans far north tended to be more hostile and defensive though I could understand why when I looked around you could see the oppression that existed for them..being that was just over 25 years ago at lot of shange had to take place for them to be accepted into medical schools and later into the AMA Part of the growing pains but considering what I had seen back in 79 and remembering images on TV when the US finally decided to segerate schools I see is a they have come a long way and I think that much change is actually quite impressive..but feel it might take 25 more years for a balance to exist Mind you I have not driven back down to Florida since . in some ways I do wonder if seen through my eyes again if the changes would be quite as huge... for some reason I still expect I would note a major racial gap in the southern states
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