BONUS EPISODE: Bias: A story about institutional racism
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
This week we present a story from our back-catalogue that speaks to this current moment in time.
As a medical school student Roger Mitchell Jr. sees a patient that makes him reflect on violence and police in the Black community.
Dr. Roger Mitchell Jr. is the Chief Medical Examiner of Washington, DC and is uniquely positioned to understand the social determinants that lead to the violence affecting our most vulnerable communities. He has a great interest in Violence as a public health issue. He is board certified in Anatomic and Forensic Pathology by the American Board of Pathology. Dr. Mitchell is also a licensed minister serving as a mentor in his local community. He often shares how drugs and violence have shaped his own life. He is a husband to his wife of 17 years and a father to his three children. Dr. Mitchell has pledged his professional career and personal time to the service of others.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | I felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I felt... |
| 0:08.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello. Hello everybody. Welcome to The Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. We are your host, Erin Barker. And Liz Neely. For the first time in years, the Story Collider did not air a new episode last Friday. |
| 0:39.6 | We also postponed the live show that would normally have occurred. |
| 0:43.7 | Our mission is to tell stories about science, but we can't do that outside of the context of anti-black and systemic racism. |
| 0:53.2 | We felt it was important for us to hold a moment of silence for George Floyd, Brianna Taylor, Ahmad Aubrey, Tony McDade, and the countless other victims of police brutality. |
| 1:06.2 | In the meantime, we decided to focus on elevating black voices on our social media channels. |
| 1:12.2 | You can find the playlist that we put together in the notes for this episode. |
| 1:16.0 | One of them features stories of institutional racism, and the other is about black joy, science, and life. |
| 1:21.7 | Because we believe that those stories are also vitally important. |
| 1:24.9 | And we wanted to bring you this previously unaired story as a special episode. |
| 1:30.0 | This story is from Roger Mitchell Jr. It was recorded in June 2019 at the Beer Barron Tavern in |
| 1:37.5 | Washington, D.C. The theme of that night was tipping point. |
| 1:54.0 | I remember when I was a third year medical student in New Jersey in North New Jersey, and I was on call for emergency medicine rotation. |
| 2:00.0 | And when I was there, anytime you're on call as a medical student, you feel like a real physician. |
| 2:07.1 | And so we started at 9 p.m. and we would go to 9 a.m. and it was a Friday night, and it wasn't that busy. |
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