NYT: Can my Children be friends with white people

[Dill]

(11-14-2017, 08:41 PM)bfine32 Wrote: He blamed Doctors for Blacks not having an Opioid problem. 

America is transfixed on the opioid epidemic among white Americans (who often get hooked after being overprescribed painkillers — while studies show that doctors underprescribe pain medication for African-Americans). 

When you phrase it that way, it sounds like he is upset because blacks have a right to an opiod problem, but doctors are discriminating against them by underprescribing, just as restaurants in the segregated South discriminated against them by refusing to serve "coloreds. "

But could he have been pointing out an altogether different disparity--perhaps noting that the same kind of attention afforded white drug problems has not been afforded black?