Wednesday, March 22, 2006

|"The black physician can never be sure how close he is to disgrace."|

I have been in my head a lot recently thinking about going to law school and being a lawyer and affirmative action and these thoughts come back to me when some students ask me why I still care about my grades so much, given that I've gotten into great law schools and it's my final semester.

This quote from Frantz Fanon from "Black Skin, White Masks" I think sums up my thoughts pretty well:

"I knew, for instance, that if the physician made a mistake it would be the end of him and of all those who came after him. What could one epect, after all, from a Negro physician? As long as everything went well, he was praised to the skies, but look out, no nonsense, under any conditions! The black physician can never be sure how close he is to disgrace."

I encountered this text in my seminar on "the stranger." Life can be clever.


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