White people believe Charlie Kirk was this generation’s Martin Luther King. There is ZERO similarity between Kirk and Dr. King. Whites calling these two deaths similar is a slap in the face of Dr. King and black people.
For decades, a racist equation was quietly built into the US medical system. The eGFR—a formula used to measure kidney function—automatically inflated scores for Black patients based on the false assumption that Black people have more muscle mass.
This made their kidneys appear healthier than they actually were, delaying diagnosis, treatment, and access to life-saving transplants, costing many their lives while waiting. Dr. Joel Bervell, a Ghanaian-American doctor, used his social media platform to expose this dangerous racial bias in medicine, sparking a nationwide conversation that led to the equation being changed in 2022.
Black patients’ wait times were recalculated, and 21,000 lives were saved as a result.