10 ways white people are more racist than they realize

[AngryAmish]

48. I am a personal injury attorney.

(Then again maybe not. This is the internet. I could be David Duke in drag.)

Anyway, I figure I have run across 2000 files in my life. Some simple car crashes. Some complex medical malpractice cases.

The 7 white folks who had "drug seeking behavior" in their files, 3 were made drug addicts by bad doctors, 3 were scumbags, 1 had terrible spinal pain the er doc did not recognize.

I have had about 40 black clients with records that reflected drug seeking behavior. About 6 of them were scumbags looking for drugs. About 12 were made drug addicts by bad doctors. 22 were just black folk who were wrongly labeled. One of these was a school secretary with a crushed foot from a car accident. As a christian, she thought god would heal her. Many times I ask a client to save their pain pill bottles as a potential prop at trial. So, getting ready for trial, I ask her to bring in her bottles. She brought a duffle bag in, filled with pill bottles filled with norco. She never took a pain pill, never even a tylenol because she did not want to be called a junkie. And when she rebroke her foot stepping off a curb the er doc said she was seeking drugs. With a broken calcanius.



(BTW, most of my clients are hispanic nowadays, but that does not reflect the demographics where I live, just an ideosyncracy of my practice).