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so students were still posting racist photos in 2013!! what kind of crap school is that!
https://nypost.com/2019/02/04/virginia-governors-med-school-dropped-yearbook-over-racist-photos/
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The head of the medical school whose yearbook sparked controversy after racist photos surfaced on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northams page in 1984 got rid of the annual after he found pictures of students in Confederate garb, according to a report on Monday.
Shortly after Provost Richard Homan hired Mekbib Gemeda as vice president of diversity at Eastern Virginia Medical School in 2013, Homan showed him a yearbook containing photos of three white students wearing Confederate uniforms posing in front of a Confederate battle flag, the Washington Post reported.
Homan told Gemeda, who had been an assistant dean for diversity affairs at New York Universitys School of Medicine, that the students in the photo had to receive counseling and sensitivity training.
We need to make sure they understand as physicians that this is offensive to me as well as to future patients and grossly offensive to minority students and African- Americans, Homan said he told Gemeda. Theyre going to be taking care of everybody. You cant be wearing incendiary symbols if youre going to be a young physician and a healer.
He also put an end to future editions of the yearbook.
But he didnt go back and review earlier yearbooks to see if they contained similar images.
TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)The racism happened. That's done. Can't change it, and if he tried to redact or destroy old yearbooks, the school could have been accused of a racism cover-up.
Always grab the bull by the horns. The new diversity head should have reviewed, discussed, and embraced feedback from communities of color *ahead* of this kind of deep-shit news. That way he would be seen as Proactive, rather than Defensive and Reactive. But that didn't happen. Wonder why?
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,895 posts)Oh, dear lord.
Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)well that explains EVERYTHING.