For many years, Henry Louis Gates Jr was handicapped due to a misdiagnosis due to prejudice. In 1964, he was a 14-year-old boy living in a small backwoods town of Appalachia with around 2,000 residents. One day while playing touch football, he unknowingly had retained a hairline fracture playing football with his friends and shortly after, the fracture sheared in to two. He then went to the hospital, and just on hearing that henry had knee pain the surgeon diagnosed with having a torn ligament and had casted in a normal wrap and wet plaster. The surgeon then proceeded to speak with Henry about wanting to become a doctor; and after asking various questions and seeing Henry correctly answering them he confirmed his diagnosis and came to his conclusion.
