To the follower who took the time to DM me criticism about my outrage surrounding the genocide of our Black community and my retweets of the voices of this conflict because you do not think this applies to Surgery or the social media sensititivies of #MedTwitter - YOU ARE WRONG.

There has never been a more pressing need in healthcare as the communal commitment we all need to make to support, fund, protect, and advocate in the fight for the lives of Black Americans.

This is a war against the system we all live in. The one we claim to thrive in. The system that supports your research, that you pay taxes in, the one that insures the patients you serve while also ignoring the pressing need for justice for Black lives.

And if you do not know what to do, of where to start, how about you pick up a book and learn about we are building our lives over the unmarked graves of millions of people

And if reading feels like not enough (it is not) how about you ask yourself what are you doing TODAY to be an anti-racist cc- @CiaoSamin

Has your department made a statement about the current events? have you donated to an organization supporting the freedom efforts of the Black community? Have you talked to your children about slavery? Are you going about your day like nothing is happening?

And if you are not, and you are quietly hoping this all “settles down” and we can all go back to living our lives, doing surgery, writing grants and papers, and hoping for the best, let me tell you reader, you are in the wrong side of history.