Biography of dr tracy hanner dvm
Biography of dr tracy hanner dvm
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As much as he could let himself, Tracy Hanner became used to hearing racial slurs.
Graduating from high school in North Carolina two years before desegregation, he often heard the words wherever he went.
They flew around the corners of his high school hallways in Chatham County as he walked past groups of white students.
The words hit him in the face, but he didn’t wince.
Biography of dr tracy hanner dvm md
He pretended to not hear them at all.
He wasn’t surprised by the questions he was asked after starting veterinary school.
“How’d you get in the class?” “How smart are you?” “Whose place did you take?”
One person asked if there was a Black national anthem, as though America’s national anthem didn’t apply to him.
Hanner was the first Black student at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, the only one in the 40-member class of 1986, the college’s second class.
At the time, there were very few veterinarians of color in the United States and even fewer were CVM faculty.
One CVM student made a differen