HUCM's Gift to My Education

I went to an awesome talk tonight called #WhataDoctorLooksLike at Georgetown and I have just one thing to say....

I'M SO GLAD I GO TO HOWARD!!!!!!

These poor students and the racial bias and unconscious bias they deal with is not a game. 

Never have I walked into a room and had my professor assume I was there to clean AND say "You can start over there in the corner."

Never have I walked into my hospital and had someone assume that I wasn't a student.

Never have I assumed that because someone referred to me as "sweetie" that they were demeaning me or attempting to make light of my accomplishments. 

Never have I been told I couldn't be a surgeon because I'm a woman, much less a Black woman.

Never have I had to face all these different ways in which my intelligence, my God given brilliance, my Black Girl Magic was challenged and I'm so glad I don't.

I go to a Historically Black Medical School, and I'm damn proud of it!