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DOCTORS, NURSES AND ADMIN ARE REPEATEDLY AND DISPROPORTIONATELY TURNING US AWAY FROM HOSPITALS TO INFECT OUR FAMILIES



DOCTORS, NURSES AND ADMIN ARE REPEATEDLY AND DISPROPORTIONATELY TURNING US AWAY FROM HOSPITALS TO INFECT OUR FAMILIES

Let’s not continue to allow white folk to set the parameters for our oppression and pain.

Reason #904 for the white gaze ban: first they gaslight us for decades saying that we need to examine each racial incident case by case, thereby keeping it all compartmentalized. ‘It’s not systemic; it’s just a few hateful persons!’

Then when we ‘prove’ that systemic racism exists, they say ‘Yes, but any individual instance we may point out is not it.’

Or worse...they scapegoat it all into 45 or the police or the republicans or the 1% or whatever.

And not having a media or the authority of our own to do things like examine the individuals (whether they be doctors or nurses or admin) who repeatedly turn us Black folk home

from hospitals untested to infect the rest of our families, causing our disparity in deaths.

By the time we break through all of the racism and denial to say this, the damage will have already been done. And then, after chiding us for stating the obvious, when the obvious is ‘proven’ they’ll say, ‘Oh well’.

It’s like I’m talking to myself here...


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