Author: Fred Mendez M.Ed.

“Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.” All of us have a whiteboard in our minds, it is filled with memories, experiences, and preconceived perceptions; the whiteboard is the summation of our life.

But wait! First things first!! Before racism in healthcare or racism in any other realm can be intelligently discussed we need to ask ourselves what racism is, and does it really exist. For that we need to take off the blinders, remove our rose-colored glasses and look at life as it really is, the good and the bad.

The Euphrates and Tigris, the Yangtze, the Nile rivers are all known as cradles of civilization. Water is needed for the development of life so early man sought out waterways in which to settle. Hippocrates, the father of medicine said, “If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health”.