This is true. Such allows for organization. I saw this with Indians in medicine. You'd have attendings recruit other indians to their program by encouraging them to apply for residency. You'd then have a situation where Indians were over-represented among the applicant pool and ultimatly would be over-represented among the people brought in. Going further back, they would have study groups headed by those who were further along to help shape the study habits of students. Going going even further back, while many of them utilize MCAT test prep services, they also generally have extra test prep among themselves and have their own message boards and forums aimed at the same thing. Going even further back, it is not uncommon to have them have essentially an informal educational network through group tutoring for their local communities that puts them on game (such as which college programs operate under a 6 year medical program, allowing some to skip over the 4 + 4 set-up of college and med school, how to take classes to decrease their time in undergrad to 3 or 2 years (weekend classes are ones' friend), how to game the GPA system (medical schools often look at your science GPA differently than your whole GPA), how to utilize community college credit to pad one's GPA (some will take a non-science major so they can take science classes in albeit easier community college programs while taking harder, non-science classes in their regular college all the while maxing the fukk out of transfer credits), and finally, some states have pipelines into certain careers like medicine with Texas having the JAMP program. If one person knows a lot of this, with some work and support, they can become a doctor almost assuredly. If a lot of people do this, supporting each other, you can get a lot of those people becoming doctors and furthering the whole thing. I'm not knocking Indians at all for this, since a decent number of people do this, but more often than not, the non-indians who do most of these things are well to do and wealthy or they were put on game by indian people and even some black immigrant communities as well. I was of the latter. Some asians I think do some of this as well. In any case, the point is is that if blacks did this, they could make some considerable noise. Some would have to resign themselves to less glamorous specialties such as family medicine and internal medicine due to the high number of spots those usually have but its better than nothing and honestly, many of those positions are actually pretty good. Having a presence in teaching hospitals would also be extremely helpful. The fact that the length of residency is not that long comparatively also helps as well. Moreover, especially since many administrative positions are held by black people. The only problem is that the whole concept of a hispanic-serving institution has created a pipeline for latinos and they are more than happy to "gentrify" (is there an hispanic version of gentrification?) these positions. In the end, there has to be a fair amount of community organization, which is where all of this starts. There are other communities that do this as well, but the main thing is one cannot operate under the idea that you need the white man's approval to achieve something. The system is tilted in their favor but that doesn't mean it can't be beaten. It just takes a hell of a lot of work. It shouldn't, and it's unfair, but until it becomes fair, one has to do something.
