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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (822)	1/6/2001 7:42:06 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

>>A resturant not wanting some people's business and why would they want to go there anyway.<< It is simplistic, Ish. Restaurants are trivial. How about being a business traveller who can't find a hotel to stay in a town because they are all white-only? How about just being a vacationer who has to plan carefully to stay in towns with hotels for blacks just so you can have a roof over your head when you want to sleep? How about not being able to use the toilet when you are shopping because the bathrooms are white-only? Most white doctors didn't treat black patients - the few that did had separate waiting rooms. White dentists didn't work on black patients. White hospitals didn't allow black patients to be treated there. So if you were black and got sick, you better hope there was a black doctor in town, or a doctor that treated black people. This way of thinking hasn't changed a whole lot in some parts of the South. In 1990 I worked on a case in Danville, VA. The black people in town took up a collection to bring in a black doctor so they would have someone willing to treat them. The doctor they brought in was an anesthesiologist, but he tried to practice general medicine. The only hospital in town wouldn't give him hospital privileges. One of his patients had a bad reaction to a drug - allopurinol - it caused her to exfolliate all her skin came off. The doctor didn't know what to do because he was inexperienced and had no one to consult with. The hospital allowed the woman in but didn't let her doctor treat her. Her family should have asked for another doctor, I guess. She died of toxic shock from generalized sepsis. Racism didn't cause her death but if she had been white I don't think she would have gone without treatment.