brown woman fired from health clinic for racist rant against "f****ng n****rs"

[Demovictory9]

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[Demovictory9]

1. her apology

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[Coventina]

2. I'd be curious to know if she's descended from Cuban exiles.

That crowd was pretty racist.

[Blue_true]

3. My guess is she is. nt

[Coventina]

5. Mine as well.

[obamanut2012]

21. Everyone I know with that last name here is

I know that is a blanket statement, but it is a "Cuban Baptista" name.

[herding cats]

6. That was my first thought as well.

Racism is a learned thing, and many old school Cuban exiles in Florida shared the tradition.

[Cha]

4. Good she was FIRED.. WTF did she think was going to happen?

STUPID these RACIST FUCKS.

[tulipsandroses]

7. Good riddance to rubbish. I work in such a clinic. A mental health clinic

It is appalling to hear this from someone that works in community health. I am in Florida - lots of Hispanics. Its interesting that she speaks that way about black people. Not hispanics. We service a lot of hispanic clients at my clinic. I would say close to half of our clients are hispanic. The rest a mix of whites, blacks, and asians. We have a full time Spanish interpreter on staff for that reason.

It is my pleasure to work in community health. It is hard work. We are over worked and underpaid. But I know if I did not show up for my clients, often, they would have no where else to go.

While we are talking about all the injustice that minorities have to deal with. Healthcare is right up there. Community health centers are a refuge for so many. So to hear this woman speak like this, turns my stomach.

[tblue37]

8. Could you summarize her comments for us deafies, please? Thanks. nt

[Demovictory9]

10. "should be watch our wallets matter"... paraphrased: "they fill the jails", "we do so much for them"

"they have ten kids", "sob story", "f***** N****" "bitch"

[tblue37]

16. Thanks. nt

[herding cats]

9. People are digging to find what they can now

It's like this every time there's a racial issue is in the spotlight. They dig to divide us anyway they can.

Divide and conquer has lead us to where we are today. I'm not buying the bait. We need to all be better, more inclusive and a hell of a lot smarter if we're gonna prevail. That means equality for all of us. Each and everyone. It's not a competition, it's a war and we all need fight for each other.

[Demovictory9]

12. point taken

[LeftInTX]

13. I live in a 70% Latino area

I hear this talk alot.

Lots of them are Republican too.

That's why I don't think Texas will turn blue based on Demographics. Lots of Mexican-Americans are very conservative.

[Ex Lurker]

18. Very anti LBTQ too nt

[obamanut2012]

22. yup

[JI7]

11. Everything she said is what White People say about Latinos

But it's not surprising , there are some non black minorities who make themselves feel better with attacks on Black people. They are fucked up full of hatred.

THis woman is a total trash .

[LeftInTX]

14. It appears she's recording this while she's at work.

[Alex4Martinez]

15. When the dominant culture makes minorities fight over crumbs, this is what we get.

There's no excusing this attitude, but it's not rocket science to see that we are in desperate times when Jeff Bezos makes more in a minute than most do in a year, or two, or three.

He makes $149,353 per minute!

He makes $2,489 per SECOND — more than twice what the median US worker makes in one WEEK.

And pays no taxes.

[crickets]

17. Excellent post. nt

[JI7]

19. This has nothing to do with Bezos. Nobody is making her do what she did

just like with the racist white trash.

minorities who are bigoted are trash also.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

20. There's racism seen among many groups.

White people (like me) are the plurality and SHOULD be even more sensitive about it, but some of the worst examples that I've seen at workplaces have been from other minorities.

I talked to a couple from India at a job years ago (they were married and both working there), and at some point I brought up how ALL people are related and originated from Africa. Both of them got very upset about that scientific fact, insisting that THEIR ancestors were never in Africa. The man even said, "Maybe that's true for YOU, but not us!"

Coincidentally, I was the whitest guy in that place and they were the darkest. (Both of them were darker-skinned than ANY African-American who worked there.) There's far more factors than skin color to determine the closeness of genetic relationships, but it still struck me as ironic.

Lots of people accept the simple answers they hear mostly from right-wing sources, and those same sources try to pit us against each other to keep our eyes off the people at the top of the socioeconomic pyramid.

Many of the largest slave owners in the past kept mostly out of sight too. They'd hire poor white people to manage the operation, and it was a job that most white people didn't want to do. (Overseers were often viewed as the dregs of society.)

[OnDoutside]

23. Reminds me of this (in terms of Class)

[Buckeye_Democrat]

24. Loved that skit!

And I suppose that I've also taken pride in doing "real work" and trying to be honest, like the shortest guy. So much that way that I turned down offers to work in management, not wanting to be more closely associated with the people that I didn't respect at past jobs.

[OnDoutside]

25. Funnily enough, 25 years ago, I had the choice of going the management route or going freelance,

and I chose freelance, for much of the same reasons you did, and boy am i glad !

[LeftInTX]

26. One time, I experienced "I don't know what you call it" ?

I'm white, I'm 1/2 Armenian, but don't look it. Generally people will think I'm Northern Italian...But for some reason people speak to me in Spanish at Mexican restaurants, stores etc and they don't to my Anglo friend, so there's that....

Personally I think on a bad day, I look more like Rachel Dratch from SNL than anyone. (Same complexion, hair and eyes...sometimes haggard look)

I live in Texas, where it is as hot as hades, and I volunteer for campaigns. I wear very casual clothing when I canvass for campaigns. You will see me in shorts, casual skirts, tank tops etc. I generally don't wear make up etc. I tend to fit in at most communities where I go to campaign.


One time, a campaign sent me to a gated community. It didn't seem that fancy, but looking at home appraisals, right now the average home appraisal is $500,000. (I live in home appraised at $232,000)

I wasn't wearing a campaign tee shirt and this was a persuasion (identify possible Dems) block walk. (The campaign didn't tell me that ahead of time...I'm friends with most of the campaign staff and I agreed to do this at the last minute)

I think I was wearing shorts and a tank top. It's October and still summer. Anyway, the moment I get there people are starring at me. I had an 18 year old on my list who had voted in the Dem primary. She apparently was now at college, but the parents wanted to know why I was there, so I told them. They responded, "She didn't vote in any Democratic Primary".

Many of the other doors I knocked on, were likely Republicans, but I couldn't get over the fact, that people working in the yards etc were starring at me. It was really strange.


Finally, I got to a house and they shout out, "Go away..."...so I quickly left. Two doors down, I ring the door. A woman comes to the door and says something after I identify myself, she wasn't interested, I leave, then she comes and out and says, "I'm calling the police". "This is a gated community and you rang my door doorbell." She also wanted to know how I got the gate code. I responded that I knew someone in the community who gave me the code.
I quickly got in my car and went back to campaign HQ and told my friend about the experience.

I do think it was my casual attire and "middle to lower middle class appearance" that got under this neighborhood's skin. If I had acrylic nails, perfect figure etc, make up etc, nicer clothes, I don't think this would have happened.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

27. That's sad.

Maybe they thought you were "casing" the area for later burglary by a poor Hispanic family or whatever?

It's something that I don't think about in my neighborhood, but I've heard past coworkers express concern about strangers they thought could be doing that around their homes.

I just Google-searched "casing" and "neighborhood", and found several paranoia-inducing sites about it! "Strangers" is supposedly a big red flag! Lol!

There's even warnings about "door-to-door scams", and people leaving flyers to mark future targets!

Until I looked for it just now, I had no idea there were so many of those sites that could induce that kind of fear! (Several of them want to sell security systems and the like.)

This country is messed-up with so much focus on material things. My suspicion is that anyone who would live in a gated community is more likely to be that way.

So maybe it wouldn't have made a big difference if you were "dolled-up" when you were there? It probably would've made a difference, though, especially if you looked so wealthy that you wouldn't want anything they owned.

I loved Rachel Dratch! Her "Debbie Downer" skits were hilarious! Those skits also made me reflect on my own behavior during family gatherings, like the times that I'd "chime in" with facts that contradicted someone else. The facts indeed had negative connotations sometimes. Maybe they secretly called me "Upsetting Uncle" behind my back? Lol!