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dalton99a

(81,062 posts)
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 11:19 AM Jun 2017

Video shows woman demanding 'white doctor' for her son in waiting-room rant

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.

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Video shows woman demanding 'white doctor' for her son in waiting-room rant (Original Post) dalton99a Jun 2017 OP
My life was saved by a TBA Jun 2017 #1
brown teeth?? unblock Jun 2017 #2
Maybe her last physician was a fossil alligator DFW Jun 2017 #6
a couple of the better doctors I have had were black. demigoddess Jun 2017 #3
Racism knows no borders. athena Jun 2017 #4
these are the people trump appealed to the most....RACISTS spanone Jun 2017 #5
Overweight, white and whining racist comments in a loud unpleasant voice DFW Jun 2017 #7

TBA

(825 posts)
1. My life was saved by a
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 11:21 AM
Jun 2017

Vietnamese, and Taiwanese and a Puerto Rican ... 2 men 1 woman. They were my oncology team. I love them.

demigoddess

(6,640 posts)
3. a couple of the better doctors I have had were black.
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 11:28 AM
Jun 2017

can't give you names because it was in military medical facilities and a long time ago.

athena

(4,187 posts)
4. Racism knows no borders.
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 11:32 AM
Jun 2017

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.

DFW

(54,047 posts)
7. Overweight, white and whining racist comments in a loud unpleasant voice
Fri Jun 23, 2017, 11:37 AM
Jun 2017

Where does she think she is, the USA?

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