Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients would have gotten and they died more often of diseases.
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I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.
Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.
I can identify many different experiences that I've had over the course of my life and things that I've witnessed where it seemed that black men, specifically me or someone else may have got the, you know, different treatment than somebody else would in that same situation.
Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.
If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.
One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.
Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attentive to the way their white counterparts see themselves in relation to people of color if they want to survive and even thrive.
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