The University of Minnesota spent $219,633 creating a training course that informs medical professionals that “white supremacy” led to “structural racism” in the healthcare field.
Watchdog organization Do No Harm obtained documents relating to the course.
The course was created to comply with Minnesota’s Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act.
In one module, the training course quotes American Medical Association (AMA) CEO James Madara, who said, “Structural racism exists in the U.S. and in medicine, genuinely affecting the health of all people, especially people of color and others historically marginalized in society.”
“This is not opinion or conjecture, it [structural racism] is proven in multiple studies, through the science and in the evidence,” the training states.
A video for the course details a timeline beginning in 1619 that describes medical racism.
According to the video, “unconscious” but “automatic” racial biases “influence the health care Black and Indigenous people receive.”
Reporting from The Blaze:
Do No Harm program manager Laura Morgan told the DCNF, “This is a substantial amount of money for a publicly funded school of medicine to spend on an online training module.” ... According to the university’s Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity, “From the roots of U.S. history, white supremacy was used to justify and uphold the institution of slavery and colonialism,” which led to “myths that Black and Indigenous people were innately ‘less than’ white people.”
