Okay. This is going to be one of those posts where I ramble and string thoughts from one thing to another because I am irritated.
I apologize in advance if I piss anyone off.
Adam was watching an interview with the nephew of the man that died in Dallas from Ebola. I can't find the video now to reference it but as he was watching it I was yelling at his phone as if the man could actually hear me.
And I quote.... "If he hadn't been a black man he would still be alive."
Really? You're gonna throw the race card? Really?
I do not consider myself to be a racist person. I look at the person as a whole rather than the color of their skin. I will form opinions based on your stupidity levels...not your color. That being said we can move on.
Yes, the hospital made mistakes. They were unprepared and uneducated and did not have the odds in their favor when Mr. Duncan came in. Yes, they screwed up and sent him home even though he was sick. Do I think that had anything to do with him being black? No. Uninsured? That is more in the realm of things possible. I have been on the receiving end of shitty hospital care because I was uninsured. It does happen. They should have taken into account that he had just come from Liberia and considered Ebola as a possibility....but they didn't. Americans tend to live in their "oh that won't happen here" bubble and it bites us in the ass on more than one occasion.
Another thing Americans tend to do is expect everything to work out because we are in America. Life doesn't work out that way. So sorry. I think Mr. Duncan's chances of survival were higher here than in Liberia. As I said before, I think the hospital was ill prepared to deal with an Ebola case and it is unfortunate that Mr. Duncan died but I don't think he would have had great chances in Liberia where, most of the people that are sick and dying are black. If he had died there then would his nephew be saying, "If he hadn't been a black man he would still be alive"?
Two nurses have tested positive for Ebola. News flash....one of them is black.....one is not. They are receiving care and hopefully they will not die. Does the non-black one have to die to prove this isn't a race issue? Seriously. If the black nurse dies is this gonna turn into a Ferguson issue?
Oh, and THAT lovely gem of current events. White, black, purple, orange or maroon....if you act like a thug and threaten a police officer...you will get shot. If you SHOOT at a police officer THEY WILL SHOOT BACK. For the love of GOD and all things holy...if you act like a thug you will be treated like one. Yes...in some cases that have occurred I do believe that the police were in the wrong and that racial profiling did occur. I think that is a shame and it is sad that it does happen. But more often than not the person lives up to their stereotypes and that is why the police react the way they do. The case of the foster kid that was black getting pepper sprayed in an assumed robbery...he was calm until the police asked him why his pictures weren't on the mantel in his white foster family's house if he lived there like he said he did. He got pissed and wouldn't calm down and came at the cops forcefully and angry...he was warned to calm down and didn't....so they sprayed him.
Moral of the story.... if you don't want the color of your skin to be an issue don't make the color of your skin such a big damn deal.
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