Racism in Medicine has an unfortunate, long, storied past. In a prior era, the socially progressive response to an American history that denied opportunities to those of color was to replace the system with one that was color blind. It was Martin Luther King that captured the imagination of a nation striving to rectify its wrongs in his speech at the National Mall where he dreamed that his “four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” But it became quickly apparent that colorblind opportunities were never the end goal of progressive activists. If racial upward mobility was to be accomplished quickly, the institutions that had long systemically kept people of the wrong color out couldn’t just be color blind, they had to now focus on race and skin color in order to