Angelina Jolie Says Daughter’s Post-Surgery Care Had Issues Due To Her Race

Angelina Jolie recently shed light about how her daughter Zahara’s race affected the level of post-op care she received following surgery!

In a recent piece with Time, the 46-year-old actress interviews Malone Mukwende, a medical student who specializes in teaching people about health in non-white people.

Mukwende, 21, began the studies after realizing that all research was based on white people.

Jolie and her ex husband, Brad Pitt, have adopted children Maddox, 19, Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, as well as their biological children Shiloh, 15, and 12-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.

“I have children from different backgrounds, and I know when there was a rash that everybody got, it looked drastically different depending on their skin color,” Jolie said. “But whenever I looked at medical charts, the reference point was always white skin.”

Joey went on to explain that one her daughter is a higher I recently had surgery, her race affected her post operative care.

Zahara, who is Black, had surgerylast year.

“Recently my daughter, Zahara, whom I adopted from Ethiopia, had surgery, and afterward a nurse told me to call them if her skin ‘turned pink,'” Jolie added.

Mukwende then said that he noticed this occurring a lot,

“Almost the entirety of medicine is taught in that way. There’s a language and a culture that exists in the medical profession, because it’s been done for so many years and because we are still doing it so many years later it doesn’t seem like it’s a problem,” he added. “However, like you’ve just illustrated, that’s a very problematic statement for some groups of the population because it’s just not going to happen in that way and if you’re unaware you probably won’t call the doctor.”