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Imagine the following:
You, as white people, learn that if the doctor is black, your newborn is three times more likely not to survive than if the doctor is white. But black babies survive similarly with any race of the doctor.
Would you happily use a black doctor knowing that?
Now, for the actual facts reported: black newborns are three times more likely not to survive if the doctor is white, but white babies are equally likely to survive regardless of the doctor's race.
You expect black parents to happily use a white doctor knowing that? Would you have been ready to attack those black parents as crazy racists before considering how you would feel? Were you ready to attack the quality of black doctors, until learning the actual situation, and did you now attack the quality of white doctors?
Black newborns 3 times more likely to die when looked after by White doctors - CNN
You, as white people, learn that if the doctor is black, your newborn is three times more likely not to survive than if the doctor is white. But black babies survive similarly with any race of the doctor.
Would you happily use a black doctor knowing that?
Now, for the actual facts reported: black newborns are three times more likely not to survive if the doctor is white, but white babies are equally likely to survive regardless of the doctor's race.
You expect black parents to happily use a white doctor knowing that? Would you have been ready to attack those black parents as crazy racists before considering how you would feel? Were you ready to attack the quality of black doctors, until learning the actual situation, and did you now attack the quality of white doctors?
Black newborns 3 times more likely to die when looked after by White doctors - CNN