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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/06/21/video-shows-woman-demanding-white-doctor-for-her-son-in-waiting-room-rant/Video shows woman demanding white doctor for her son in waiting-room rant
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. | June 21
As the woman stormed through the Canadian medical facility, she was adamant: She wanted a white doctor to treat her son not a brown one and not one with an accent.
So you're telling me that my kid has chest pains, he's going to have to sit here until 4 o'clock? she told an employee at the walk-in clinic in Mississauga, Ontario. Can I see a doctor please that's white, that doesn't have brown teeth, that speaks English?
The employee responded that the facility couldn't suddenly summon a Caucasian pediatrician.
But the angry mother was steadfast.
TBA
(825 posts)Vietnamese, and Taiwanese and a Puerto Rican ... 2 men 1 woman. They were my oncology team. I love them.
unblock
(51,973 posts)DFW
(54,047 posts)And she didn't like his lack of attention?
demigoddess
(6,640 posts)can't give you names because it was in military medical facilities and a long time ago.
athena
(4,187 posts)The worst part of this is that her health care is being paid for in part by those people she's attacking, and yet she thinks she's entitled to insult and dismiss them all because she happens to be white.
I hope Canadians will put a stop to this by making it clear that this kind of speech is offensive and unacceptable. I wish a white person in the waiting room had had the nerve to stand up to that racist woman; she would not have been able to dismiss a white person as easily as she dismissed that woman of color who was brave enough to stand up to her. Canadians must not allow the disease that has infected half the United States to spread into Canada as well.
spanone
(135,627 posts)DFW
(54,047 posts)Where does she think she is, the USA?