blog 17: Ready For Revolution…
Stokely is at Howard University. He loves the culture and diversity he’s experiencing in DC and his activist group he’s participating in called NAG. Although he’s in school to become a doctor, but after all the political and social justice activities he became involved in Stokely started to reconsider. I predict that Stokely will officially change his mind because when people started to ask in his second semester he said “I don’t want to be a doctor,” (Revolution, 126) He said he just wanted to help people but realized that medicine wasn’t his calling stating, “I reasoned that my attraction to medicine was mostly to serve human needs. I was seeing more and more clearly that our people’s health problems were largely socially determined. Poverty, segregation, overwork, malnutrition, social deprivation of all kinds, were causing most of our people’s physical illnesses.”(Revolution, 127) He said he wanted to treat people “before they got ill,”