Henrietta Lacks Racism

Racism is defined as the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others. Why feel superior if God created everyone equal and there is not one inferior. Over the history there has been many cases of racism. An example in history is Henrietta Lacks, her eyes still young and playful not knowing she had a cancerous tumor with a multimillion- dollar of immortal cells inside of her. She was one of many persons who experienced racism. The novel of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot addresses her life has an African American. The racism theme is prevalent in the novel and it shows the fact how African Americas were treated by white people.

Herietta

did not had a childhood like any other. Many of us had the privilege to go to school with multi-culture people. Her childhood was harsh especially when she had to walk to school. She would had to passed by a white school where white children would mock her and threw rocks at her. There was almost no respect for an African American at her time. Blacks had many barriers to overcome. Her passed generation descended from slaves and were treated inferior than any other person. They did not have a voice to express themselves and be heard.
When Henrietta mother died, her father left her with her grandfather. She had to share a cold room with her cousin David Lacks at a log cabin called: The home-house which was standing on a hillside were the wind would pass through the walls. Henrietta and David would work long hours at the tobacco field. They spend time together and eventually got married.
Later on, Henrietta and David moved to East Baltimore and had more children until doctors diagnosed her with cervix cancer. Back in the days African Americans did not had the privilege to go to any hospital. It was impossible for them to get help by any doctor unless they were in their last stage of sickness. Whites had the first priority to get treatment and attend to any hospital. Hopking Hospital was the only place where black could attend so she started her treatment. Amazing they took some examples of her tissue and found “HeLa” the first immortal cells to the benefits of the human health science.
Even with all the benefits that Henrietta Lacks brought to the medical field, we cannot leave her family on the side. Today they cannot afford health insurance and have not received any credit for Henrietta Lacks immortal cells. Did the color of Henrietta contribute to not receive recognition to her family and her? Henrietta was the only African American to carry the cells within her. With her cells doctors have been able to save thousands of lives all over the world. Even though she was born on a racism era everyone is this would should recognize her has a person who made history to the pharmaceutical industry no matter what color she was.