It's so infuriating to read real articles like this...but it's something every American should be aware of. I'm so proud to follow your channel and learn the realities of our pasts. Thank you for posting Hez, you're an inspiration to me every day.
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Definitely a hard read. We need this though. I started to read Beloved, by Toni Morrison last year and have yet to get through it. I'm going to, but after a few pages I HAVE to put it down. As my eyes widen, the pain increases.
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They fear what they don't know and hate what they can't conquer. Those wasn't nurses, they are the devil which they manifest in all of their endeavors, still today it's worse, just go to any senior citizen facility in America to find out, Catastrophe !
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He had all that to say but didn't want to use his real name, huh? I stopped after the first paragraph. There are some truly terrible and hateful people in this world.
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"Human Events," the very newsletter Reagan credited with turning him from a liberal Democrat to a conservative Republican. A handful of Democrats wrote some essay about his extremism. And yet he won a landslide election.
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Stuff like this doesn't bother me. One persons opinion from over 100 yrs ago doesn't change how l feel about myself. Ive never cared how whites folks see us, nor do l compare myself against them.
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Wow. Crazy how the black race was viewed. Terrible. Thank goodness - times have changed
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"Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racist'."
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I believe some doctors/nurses carry this racist ideology today, we don't receive the same care as white patients.
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(1909) White Nurses And Black Patients
GALEN AECULAPIUS HIPPOCRATES.
The Sun
Baltimore, Md..
07 Oct 1909
One of the most disgusting and deplorable influences in hospital life, especially in its inhuman effects on the white nurses, is the presence of foul, loathsome, degraded and brutal negro patients, the lowest of the low—the most detestable of all created beings.
The great majority of these animals when brought into the hospitals have not had a bath for months, or even years, and it is frequently found necessary to use powerful antiseptics, in addition to the ordinary cleansing substances, in order to remove the accumulated filth and destroy the innumerable vermin which inhabit their foul bodies.
Now, when we consider the fact the work of giving baths and administering seminal massage must be done by the white nurses, who are called upon to work in the negro wards, as well as in the white wards, the mere thought of such a thing becomes absolutely abhorrent.
Nursing is, without doubt, the highest and noblest profession or business a woman can engage in, and it is positively necessary that such training be acquired in a hospital, but the fact that white ladies are compelled to give treatment and baths to such things as colored patients is one of the most despicably blots on American civilization, and a disgrace to the present regimen of our hospitals.
Ninety-nine and nine-tenths per cent, of negroes treated in our hospitals are not worth saving, and when their worthless lives are saved to what purpose is it?
At some future time the male negroes will commit assaults on our white women while the females will sit in white people's laps in street cars, as has occurred in numerous cases, for the "savage brute" that is in them is bound to manifest itself sooner or later.
After a negro has once been waited on by a white person, especially in the performance of such menial, lowly and servile tasks as nurses must perform in all cases of negro patients, the blacks more than ever feel assured that they are the equals or even the superiors of the white people, and there is nothing that so tends to promote the idea of social equality in their infantile brains.
As Mr. Marbury said in his speech at Edison, "it causes them to assume an attitude of haughtiness, make them offensive, self-assertive and often arrogant towards the white race."
It is so frequently referred to in such cases openly by the blacks as "poor white trash."
I have heard negroes who have been in hospitals openly boast that they were waited on and given baths by pretty, aristocratic young white girls, and they seemed to think that this gave them a sort of social prestige and superiority.
The fact that they will be obliged to work in negro wards is what keeps thousands of fine, educated and in every way desirable white girls from entering our hospitals as nurses, and thus their superior services are entirely lost to the hospitals.
In every case negroes are treated free of all charge, for in 40 years' experience as physician I have yet to see even one colored pay patient.
GALEN AESCULAPIUS HIPPOCRATES, M. D.
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