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One question I will always vividly remember on the interview trail:
“You’ve passed all your classes, clerkships, and boards. That’s amazing. Do you think, however, that you deserved more (honors, I have 0) and do you think race played a role?”
“You’ve passed all your classes, clerkships, and boards. That’s amazing. Do you think, however, that you deserved more (honors, I have 0) and do you think race played a role?”
Now after hearing this I was triggered lmao A LOT of my anti-racism work was pointing out how Black students have drastically different medical school experiences and how things like stereotype threat and discrimination affect our performance.
A white man asked me this so I had to literally take a minute to figure out how to word my answer so I wasn’t *possibly* gaslit for making everything about race.
What happened after I told him my piece surprised me
What happened after I told him my piece surprised me
He literally agreed and went into how he was actively trying to address this. I was never interrupted. I was listened to, even if the content of my words was hard to hear.
And wow? Lmao WOW I was so taken aback but all the tension I had about this conversation melted away
And wow? Lmao WOW I was so taken aback but all the tension I had about this conversation melted away
This is what happens when you give Black women the space to be unabashedly honest about their lived experience in white-dominated spaces, especially in formal settings
And this is what everyone should be doing. Even when it’s not popular
