Today in my #BlackandSTEM nightmares, Common and Erykah Badu and Michael Eric Dyson and Nick Cannon team up to make sure Black scientists lose our minds when trying to talk to our folks about getting medical care.

This is NOT a winning strategy for confronting medical racism. https://twitter.com/shanestackamil1/status/1253653800319160323

First of all “modern” medicine isn’t a white invention!!!!!! Black/Indigenous peoples, Asian/Indigenous peoples, Indigenous folks of the Americas? HAVE ALL CONTRIBUTED TO MODERN MEDICINE, *for centuries*.

The idea that modern medicine is a white thing is a racist myth.

Second of all, because white supremacy fucks everything up, Black people have often been victims of medical racism — because racism is everywhere, even in the spaces where we have already made contributions.

That does not mean everything about medicine is garbage.

The release of this documentary is dangerous and is gonna get people killed.