Brown skinned and for present day things I’d say race shouldn’t matter… But for fucking 1893? Just 30 years after the civil war? Can you imagine the challenges they faced in society during that time? It was probably double or triple as hard to get where they were vs if a white man had followed the same path.

It doesn’t. This surgeon was motivated enough to help people that he opened his own practice to do it, and that motivation helped people.

It has seemed for years that, with a large population of people with a superiority complex over others, Americans keep feeling the need to convince everyone that non-white people are, and have always been, just as useful and talented as white people.

Another take is “Breaking! People achieve things… And some of those people have skin tones darker than pure ivory. Amaze!”

what’s interesting in this case is the year, 1893, people were really racist back then

I think everyone is, especially the people who are thought of as less capable by the colour their skin

The thing is that people think (let’s face it, it’s not thought) that POC are somehow less intelligent.

ditto but for me it’s the constant men vs women sex rage bait