Fallacy
“We live in an era defined and overwhelmed by grievance — by too many Americans’ obsession with how they’ve been wronged and their insistence on wallowing in ire…They promote a self-obsession at odds with community, civility, comity and compromise.” - John Sipher
Racism is not the issue the government makes it out to be. And with such emphasis by the government and disciples now called DEI, where diversity is emphasized, racism has become a torch being carried to advance the desires of many minorities. However, the issue is less racial and more uneducated.
Our education system needs to do a better job with entry-level students in the earliest grades by expanding their vocabulary and exposure to matters of personal hygiene, healthcare, diet, fitness, and general well-being. Most desirable would be to have children, infants, 2-year-olds, exposed to more information, words, discussion, than they are in many low income environments. Statistics, I believe show that children of better educated and more financially secure, as well as two parent homes, are exposed to a much broader vocabulary, in some case 150,000 words versus 15,000 words before they enter kindergarten. When these children go to school the more exposed do better, understand more readily and are prepared to advance. Teachers too often advance poor performing students even though they are not at an equal level intellectually. This has nothing to do with race. They are not less intelligent, just less prepared to learn. They need more attention, more input, more care, not to be ignored and left to being embarrassed as slow, or just dumb. The teachers are told by their school district, the system, to promote all. That is a systematic problem which creates division and a class of poor students versus more advanced.
The medical profession has been studied to discover a very important fact. Although the government, even the American Medical Association, suggests and calls for more diversity in the medical field, racism is not the problem. Interviews of hundreds of practicing physicians when asked how they treat their patients, the answer was simply this. We focus on the medical problem, not color, race, ethnicity or sexual orientation. That is our calling, to care for the sick. Color and race is not the issue. We do not treat hispanics or colored, asian or white any different, unless there are factors of a unique nature that may impact a patients health. Living conditions, personal hygiene, and ailments associated with certain types, as proven over time in research and medical practice, are considered in diagnostics and treatment. And when these same professionals are asked how diversity has become an issue in selecting candidates for medical school and as medical residents, the response is, “It is not our choice. It is the Government’s policies.”
Such diversity and the use of DEI, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, in choosing candidates for schools, for medical specialties, to be surgeons, and to train, has created a concern. In doing so the quality of those as a whole, the general nature of the skills of the medical pool made available to care for Americans, has been diminished. Resident hours have been controlled by regulation, and as a result many residents do not get the experience and exposure to severe medical cases. When a significant emergency occurs requiring all hands on deck, residents whose hours have reached a max by State or Federal law may have to leave, go home, or otherwise violate work rules. The result less experience with the hardest possible medical situations. Government, politicians, have made being a doctor a job, not a dedication, and caring for and knowing how to care, and being trained in caring, less important that how many hours they work. As a result you and me may not be treated when the time comes by the best possible medical professional. If you want a doctor to treat you for a heart condition, or a surgeon to cut into your body, are you wanting the best possible or the result of diversity and DEI requirements.
Standards are being reduced to accommodate meeting legislated requirements for diversity. What is being realized, current diversity and DEI requisites are making the outcomes for all skills when applied less acute, less skillful. The pool as a whole of the best is diminished. It is unfortunate to have to admit this, but admit it we must.
The diminished outcome is related more to our education system, a weakened teacher pool protected by tenure and an inability to properly discipline students, as well as family situations. Government must focus on the problem, not just pass it down the road. Find a way to reach down into welfare families and provide better education, more incentives to learn and less dependency on welfare for years, even decades.
by Thomas W. Balderston
Author and Blogger
May 2024
