Summary Of 2.2-Dr. Roberts

1- Dr. Roberts elucidates the different issues and disparities which nonwhites have experienced throughout history. These different issues enable health disparities which continues to affect our health care systems today. Dr. Roberts explains the use of people having different skin tones to justify their inferior treatment in many different situations. People of color have been used for experiments, carried out by white researchers and scientists. The problems which have been faced by people of color within our healthcare system, and within other systems, throughout history, are still largely present today. The unequal treatment which was, for a long time, considered a norm and broadly accepted, still influences our attitudes and the attitudes of those in health care. Our histories still affect the way we function, even if we do not completely realize it.
Feagin addresses multiple different factors for defining and understanding systemic racism. White race establishes power, creating racial hierarchy. Whites promote and display racial framing, which includes but goes far beyond instances of stereotyping and prejudice. Dominant race discriminates and spreads discrimination against the subservient race. Propagation of disparities and inequalities through the social and governmental systems. The existence of the different placements of systemic racism within our systems, institutions and networks has taken place over time and has been instilled and manifested into our attitudes and behavior. Although we may think we have moved past it, many healthcare professionals are either unaware or struggling to come to grips with the new standards of equality we are trying to implement and maintain. People in positions of power in the medical field are often blind to the racism that exists within our systems, consequently only perpetuating its