We're into a kind of high-tech phrenology.
"Whether you're African American, no matter what you are, when you talk about research on genetics, the antenna will go up. It will go up for anyone. It will go up even higher in the African American community. There's a great deal of suspicion, and I think that's healthy suspicion."
"I do believe the primary basis and the overwhelming majority of the issues contributing to these disparities have to do with social status and access to health care. I don't feel that genetics is playing a major role."
| Two quotes from Dr. Floyd Malveaux, president of Howard University College of Medicine, in Melissa Healy's Los Angeles Times article "The race factor"
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