There is medical mistrust among African Americans in the medical healthcare system. From the Antebellum era to the 1950s, the U.S. medical research has a long history of discriminating and exploiting African American community for a long period of time (Black Americans Don’t Have Trust in the Medical Healthcare System, 2017). Therefore, this indicates that African Americans are more likely to participate in dissections and medical examinations (Black Americans Don’t Have Trust in the Medical Healthcare System, 2017). Racism refers to the belief of the superiority that results in prejudice and discrimination based on ethnicity and race (Jandt, 77). African Americans are one of the largest ethnic groups that have been impacted by racism for the
