Talk:Keith Black (surgeon)

First African-American neurosurgery chairman?
The following sentence was added, without a source on 24 May: In 2006, Black became the first African-American to become chairman of a neurosurgery department.  I tagged this statement as lacking a source and I haven't been able to verify it. I did turn up an article from the Journal of the National Medical Association (September 2007) which states that in 1987 Dr. Lloyd A. Dayes "became chairman of Loma Linda’s Division of Neurosurgery, becoming the first African American to chair a certified neurosurgery residency program . . . He held this post until 1989 . . . " I note the use of the word "Division" rather than "Department" here, but in the absence of some clarification, it doesn't seem to be a material difference. Accordingly, lacking any contrary reliable source, I have deleted the aforementioned sentence from this article. --Arxiloxos (talk) 01:21, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Childhood move
The article states that "Unwilling to send their son to the substandard segregated high school in Auburn, Black's parents found new jobs and relocated the family to Shaker Heights, Ohio.", which is an accurate paraphrase of the cited work (Black and Mann,Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters with Mortality and Miracles). On the same page of that work, it notes that Black was ten years old the summer of the move, which would mean the move occurred in the summer of 1967. The problem with this is that Auburn High School was desegregated in June 1965, so Black's parents would not have had to send him to Drake High, the "substandard segregated high school". Also, it is unlikely that they would have had quality concerns with Auburn High, the high school in Auburn he could have attended, as for the year prior to the move Auburn High had a greater percentage of graduates attend college than Shaker Heights and a greater percentage of National Merit Scholars (7.1% of the graduating class (10/140) at AHS vs. 5.7% of the graduating class (27/475) at SHHS in 1966-67). Given the factual problems with the cited work, I would suggest that the reason for the move be deleted unless some clarification can be given, to be replaced by a simple statement that Black's family moved to Shaker Heights. Lissoy (talk) 20:21, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Other Corrections (and Some Insights)
When the young, future Dr. Keith Black was ten-years old, it decision to remove the family to Ohio most likely occurred in the spring-summer of 1970 AD, citing calenderal procession from the second-half of the year (Septemeber 27, 1957AD). Also, his parents would have made the move after that school year session was over in June! On the matter of the segregated school of which Dr. Black's father administered, I have a problem with his methods. Though the article states that the senior, Principal Black was prevented from integrating the student body (which would have diminished and forcibly excluded many needy Africano children from their familiar districts, and an education) he "integrated" the teaching faculty, AND the administrating staff. Now, this has me scratching my head: Besides then firing, and\or displacing qualified(?) Black faculty, he had hire whites to replace them!! Were the men and women faculty he replaced competent, or not qualified to render the levels of excellence in teaching and education? I would think they were. Why would the racist Alabama State Education board approve the integration of whites in an all-Black school? And, most of all, wasn't it the responsibility of Mr. Black, Sr. to deliver quality education to his charges, most of whom he was socially intimate with through community and even family? This article notes that Mr. Black, Sr. felt that by bringing in white faculty, and probably firing Black educators, that the quality of education (and also those physical resources and tools that accompany a proper application of school curriculum,) could only be had by white "presence" in Black schools? Or, to put it bluntly, was there any allegation of low-quality of education at that particular school? I do think that responsibility in all matters rested largely with Principal Black himself. The move to Ohio would seem as, nothing, except for the fact that there are excellent medical schools in the South that have a long tradition of admitting and nurturing African American candidates. And, excuse me: I (and I suppose many, many others) question the outcome of the medical case concerning the late Johnnie L. Cochrane, Esq. How could the second tumor be missed by the expert(s)? I am in mo way judging Dr. Keith Black. This is the first I've ever heard of him; he seems not as widely known, nor anywhere as popularly (media-wise)) promoted as Dr. Carson, which is pitiful, and even suspicious in the latter case!  I'm just raising a few questions of veracity that many other people usually miss, if they care at all about the subject!!!  --108.29.95.63 (talk) 18:51, 26 May 2014 (UTC)Veryverser

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