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...Although the researchers adjusted their data for factors such as obesity levels, these did not affect the racial disparity. Some might be tempted to see the data as reflecting racial discrimination among doctors, but that would probably result in a different pattern among different doctors. Instead, the discrepancy was common among all of the doctors, irrespective of how many black patients they saw or how good their overall performance rates were...
...That's why Sequist did a follow-up study with the same group of physicians, asking whether they thought racial disparities were a problem in diabetes care. About 90% said there's a problem in the U.S. nationally, but less than half of that number believed the problem affects their own practices. Now, Sequist is giving those doctors reports on their treatment performance based on the race of the patient. He's also experimenting with what he calls "cultural competency training": lessons designed to help doctors recognize when patients may not share the same assumed health conditions, or when patients...
Kennedy seemed to delight in telling audiences the opposite of what they wanted to hear. Amid the era's taut racial tensions, he spent more time asking white audiences to step into the shoes of aggrieved blacks than he did pandering to their desire for law and order. In Clarke's passionate retelling, Kennedy seemed to know what lay ahead; he ran his race with such disdain for safe politics, it was "as if this campaign might have to serve as legacy, and epitaph...
...impression that people want to silence her.' FRANCOIS-XAVIER KELIDJIAN, lawyer for Brigitte Bardot (right), the 73-year-old film icon who was fined 15,000 euros ($23,000) for provoking discrimination and racial hatred by writing that Muslims are destroying France--her fifth conviction for making controversial remarks about Islam...
...afford their healthcare. We imagine a future in which we can save our planet and end our dependence on foreign oil. We imagine a future in which we can reclaim the American Dream for all people, of all religions, of all economic status, of all sexual orientations and all racial identities. Ultimately, Obama inspires us to realize that these desirable ends can only be accomplished if we come together as one nation...