The Washington Free Beacon reports that Chief Resident of Yale’s Child Psychiatry Program, Dr. Amanda J. Calhoun, believes psychiatry ‘is rooted in anti-Black racism.’ Dr. Calhoun is the very same person who recently appeared on MSNBC’s The ReidOut to deliver the message that it was ‘okay to cut off your conservative relatives.’
Dr. Calhoun was the keynote speaker at Yale Medical School’s “White Coats for Black Lives,” a demonstration held in the wake of George Floyd’s death in which hundreds of doctors “took a knee in front of the Yale School of Medicine to demonstrate their solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.” Dr. Calhoun’s website states that “all doctors should be activists.”
The Washington Free Beacon article may be read in its entirety HERE.
My brothers and sisters, it seems to this writer that medical care should be available equally to all, without focusing on, and operating in, a ‘quasi-affirmative action’ approach to medicine when the patient is White (or perceived thusly) or even of color, but non-Black.
Declaring that only Black doctors could effectively treat and/or understand the needs of Black Americans seems to be racist on its face…and I hate even typing the ‘R’ word.
Disparaging an entire race of persons is never the answer to race relations, or better put, we need to truly come to an understanding that God made us all in His image, both male and female, and of all races. We are all loved equally by God and He desires for ALL to be saved and to live eternally in heaven with Him!
In the Bible, Jesus commands us to love one another, which is the mark of a Christian:
Mark 12:29-32 (NLT)
Jesus replied, “[t]he most important commandment is this: ‘[l]isten, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’ The second is equally important: ‘[l]ove your neighbor as yourself [emphasis mine].’ No other commandment is greater than these.”
John 13:34-35 (NKJV)
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
The Bible also tells us that we are not to be prejudiced or operate in partiality with others, as we are all one in Christ Jesus:
James 2:1 (NLT)
A Warning Against Prejudice
“My dear brothers and sisters, how can you claim to have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ if you favor some people over others?”
Galatians 3:28 (NLT)
“There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
It hurts to say this, but as it stands right now, if I develop a serious medical condition, physical or mental, I hope to not find myself in front of Dr. Calhoun or one of her Yale Medical School protégés.
Although it is of significantly less importance than scripture, as a reminder to all (including the non-believer), the second paragraph of the U.S. Declaration of Independence states that “[w]e hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal [emphasis mine], that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
There is no room in the Christian heart for angst and partiality about race. Jesus is Lord of all!
