Racist publications are the academic equivalent of “only people who say racist things are racist”. We could spend forever reacting to racist articles, getting retractions, and “I’m sorry but I’m not a racist” apologies OR we could dismantle the system that creates them. https://twitter.com/rheaboydmd/status/1290336323333545984

Want to know what is also racist?
- boards of journals & healthcare institutions w/o marginalized group representation
- “community-based” researchers disappearing after the data is collected
- Marginalized groups not being represented in research because “they’re hard to reach”

- institutions spending more time conducting research in marginalized communities than providing clinical care
- Journals & healthcare orgs only talking about racism after May 2020 because it’s “trendy” or they fear looking regressive
- Hostile environments for BIPOC in academia

- Inequitable hiring/promotion
- Inequitable healthcare experiences
- The general acceptibility of race as a risk factor without further investigation
- Race as justification for disproportionate treatments or outcomes

We’ll never catch up running behind every racist article