APPARENTLY BLACK WOMEN CAN BE ARCHITECTS OR DOCTORS NOW,
BECAUSE A DOCTOR/OB/GYN RESIDENT WAS RECENTLY ON A DELTA
FLIGHT WHEN A PASSENGER BECAME IN SOME KIND OF MEDICAL
DISTRESS, AND THERE WAS A CALL MADE FOR PHYSICIANS, AND
SHE RAISED HER HEAD, BUT SHE WAS GREETED TO, AND THIS IS
FROM HER OWN ACCOUNT ON FACEBOOK, BUT ATTENDANCE
SAYING, "OH NO, SWEETIE, PUT YOUR HAND DOWN.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR ACTUAL PHYSICIANS OR NURSES OR SOME
TYPE OF MEDICAL PERSONNEL, WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO TALK TO YOU"
SHE SAYS, "I TRIED TO INFORM HER THAT I WAS A PHYSICIAN BUT
I WAS CONTINUALLY CUT OFF BY CONDESCENDING REMARKS.
I STARE AT HER AS I GO TO PRESS MY BUTTON.
SHE SAID, WELL, YOU'RE AN ACTUAL POSITION?
I REPLIED YES.
SHE SAID LET ME SEE YOUR CREDENTIALS.
WHATEVER DOCTOR ARE YOU?
WHERE DO YOU WORK?
WHY WERE YOU IN DETROIT?
PLEASE MEMBER THIS MAN IS STILL IN NEED OF HELP AND SHE IS
BLOCKING MY ROVER EVEN STANDING UP WHILE BOMBARDING ME WITH
QUESTIONS.
I RESPOND, OB/GYN, WORK IN HOUSTON, IN DETROIT FOR A
WEDDING, BUT BELIEVE IT OR NOT THEY DO HAVE DOCTORS IN DETROIT.
NOW EXCUSE ME SO I CAN HELP THE MAN IN NEED."
AFTER A WHILE, WHAT SHE SAID WAS A SEASONED MAN SAID HE WAS
A DOCTOR, AND THEY SAID THEY NO LONGER NEEDED HER HELP.
SHE SAID THEY DID NOT CHECK FOR HIS CREDENTIALS, AND SOMETIME
LATER THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT CAME BACK TO DOCTOR CROSS AND WAS
ASKING FOR MORE HELP, AND IF SHE COULD HELP WITH THE SITUATION.
DESPITE BEING ANGRY WITH THE SITUATION, SHE DID HELP,
BECAUSE IT WAS NOT THE PASSENGER'S FAULT, IT WAS
THE FIGHT ATTENDANCE, AND HIS LIFE WAS IN SOME KIND OF DANGER.
AT THIS POINT THE FIGHT ATTENDANCE BECAME MUCH MORE
APOLOGETIC AND OFFERED HER SKYMILES, TO WHICH SHE
SAID, "I KINDLY REFUSED.
THIS IS GOING HIGHER THAN HER.
I DON'T WANT SKYMILES IN EXCHANGE FOR BLATANT
DISCRIMINATION."
PLUS THE DOCTOR, THE WHITE GUY THEY HAD, ASKED THE FEMALE
DOCTOR FOR ADVICE.
AND OTHER DELTA PERSONNEL GOT INVOLVED, THAT'S PART OF THE
REASON WHY THE ORIGINAL FLIGHT ATTENDANT APOLOGIZED.
BECAUSE DOCTORS CARRY AROUND BADGES LIKE COPS RIGHT?
WEATHERMAN WAS ABLE TO RESPECT HER.
BECAUSE HE'S A DOCTOR, HE KNOWS THERE ARE DOCTORS OF OTHER
RACES.
I WANT TO ASK SOMETIMES, WHAT DO YOU THINK BLACK PEOPLE DO?
THIS DOCTORS, LAWYERS, JUDGES.
I GET SO MAD SOMETIMES.
PEOPLE SAY, THERE HE IS PLAYING THE RACE CARD AGAIN.
NO, I'M TELLING YOU MY LIFE, WHAT I'VE SEEN AND GONE THROUGH.
I THOUGHT I WENT BACK IN TIME 30
YEARS AGO, AND THAT WAS LAST WEEK.
WHEN REVIEW IN MISSISSIPPI?
ARE THERE DOCTORS THERE?
IT'S LIKE, YOU CAN BE EDUCATED.
A LOT OF TIMES I'M WEARING SWEATS OR ADIDAS RUNNING SHOES
BECAUSE I LIKE TO BECOME DOUBLE, BUT IF SOMEONE ASKED ME A
QUESTION ñ EITHER IF IT'S SOMEONE FAMOUS, OR PEOPLE
TALKING TO ME LIKE, I DON'T HAVE TO BE SCARED OF HIM.
I UNDERSTAND, I'M 6 FEET AND A HALF, I'M NOT A SMALL GUY, BUT
AT THE SAME TIME, YOU DIDN'T GROW UP THE WAY I GREW UP, SO
WHEN I'M WALKING DOWN THE STREETS IN NEW YORK I WILL
SEE WOMEN CROSSING THEIR PURSE TO THE OTHER SIDE LIKE THIS.
PEOPLE ARE LIKE, YOU ARE REACHING, BUT I'M NOT, I'VE
SEEN THIS FOR 35 YEARS.
SORRY, I GET A LITTLE.
I WAS IN MISSISSIPPI VISITING FAMILY BY THE WAY.
I ALWAYS GET STRUCK BY DETAILS.
DETAILS MAKE THE STORY.
I'M SURE THAT'S THE THING THAT BLACK GUYS KNOW THAT WHITE GUYS
DON'T, BUT JUST RECOGNIZING CONSISTENTLY WOMEN SWITCHING
THEIR PURSES
TO THE OTHER SIDE, THAT'S A VERY POWERFUL
DETAIL, AT LEAST FOR ME.
IF SOMEONE IS CROSSING PATHS AND THAT PURSES THERE, COUNTLESS
TIMES I'VE SEEN IT.
THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT DO SNATCH PURSES AND STUFF, BUT I MEAN, I
CAN BUY YOU BAG IF YOU WANT, I ONLY JUST NOT SURE PURSE.
ALL OF A SUDDEN WE'RE HAVING A CONVERSATION.
OUR PRODUCER, JAYAR JACKSON SAYS EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE IF
HE'S GOING ON A TRIP HE SAYS I'M TAKING A TIME MACHINE.
I LIKE THAT SCHOOL, IS IT A HOT TUB TIME MACHINE, WHERE ARE
WE GOING?
HE'S LIKE, I'M GOING TO THE SOUTH, GOING BACK 30 YEARS.
THERE'S A LOT OF THE SOUTH THAT I LOVE, I'VE BEEN ALL OVER THE
SOUTH, BUT I GET TO HAVE THAT PRIVILEGE IN A SENSE.
MAYBE I GET A LOOK, AND IS A TOTAL DIFFERENT THING BECAUSE
THEY ARE NOT SURE WHO I AM.
I'M A LITTLE SUSPICIOUS, BUT NOT PURSE CHANGING SUSPICIOUS.
IN THIS CASE, NO ONE IS DISPUTING THE DOCTORS
INTERPRETATION.
DELTA IS SAYING WE PROFUSELY APOLOGIZE, BECAUSE THE NATURAL
INSTINCT OF A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT DON'T WANT TO ADMIT THAT RACISM
EXISTS, BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO BE COMBINED WITH UGLY TRUTHS,
THEY WILL JUST NATURALLY GO, THEY ARE MAKING IT UP AND IT'S
NOT REAL.
IN THIS CASE, YOU'LL HAVE AN OUT.
EVERYBODY AGREES.
THE WHITE DOCTOR AGREES, THE FLIGHT ATTENDANTS AGREE,
DELTA AGREES, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED.
AND AGAIN, I HAVEN'T LIVED IT, AND WE'VE COVERED A DOZEN
STORIES LIKE THIS, BUT I'M STILL SURPRISED.
THAT MINDSET IS SO FOREIGN TO ME THAT SUMMARY WOULD LOOK AT
ANOTHER PERSON AND GO, OH NO NO, SWEETIE.
SHE JUST SAID SHE'S A DOCTOR, WHY WOULD YOU NOT BELIEVE HER?
WHO MAKES THAT UP?
WHY WOULD ANYBODY MAKE THAT UP?
KIM MADE THAT UP.
OH NO.
AS SOON AS I SEE SOME LIKE THAT I LIKE, AH SHIT!
BUT IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, WE GOT AN EMERGENCY, YOU GOT TO
HELP THE GUY.
AND AS SHE IS BLOCKING HER, THEY SAY PRESS THE BUTTON IF YOU
ARE A PHYSICIAN, AND SHE PRESSES THE BUTTON AND SHE'S LIKE,
NO REALLY?
YOU'RE A POSITION?
WHY WOULD SOME BUDDY GET AROUND IN A SITUATION LIKE THAT?
BUT THE BIAS IS SO INGRAINED IN SOME PEOPLE, AND THEY GREW
UP IN A DIFFERENT CULTURE.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S THE SOUTH, THE AGE, IT MIGHT BE ANYTHING.
THEY GREW UP IN A DIFFERENT CULTURE THAT THEY THINK,
THESE FOLKS ARE FOR THIS AND THEY ARE NOT FOR THAT.