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In reply to the discussion: Nurse removed from hospital after saying white boys should be sacrificed to the wolves [View all]marble falls
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I understand why some people are a bit nervous when they see someone like me. Guys who look like me are the authors of a lot of the outrages in this country and the world. I understand why it is that I need to speak calmly no matter how much my complaint is in the right. I understand why I need to keep a respectful distance until women, children, PoC particularly AA get to sense where I am coming from.
Its not fair. You and I didn't do anything personally to bring this on, but it most certainly is understandable.
AA nurses in hospitals aren't creating outrages, guys who look like you and me are. We don't need to worry about that nurse, we need to worry about guys who look like you and me. I hear every single day from Trump supporters who by and large look like you and me say things a lot worse than what that nurse said and in a lot worse language than that nurse used. We need to have traveled in her shoes a bit before we get too huffy about it.