A caller to a local black station made the charge that Williams demanded the hospital have all-white nurses and other personnel around his daughter. Conservative talk show host on the local news-talk station played the tape of the call.
Hank Jr. said in his interview, and I paraphrase: My daddy was taught to play guitar by a black man, Rufus Payne. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't even be standing here.
Williams also noted that it was two black women---he called them by name---who comforted his daughters as they lay in the median of the highway awaiting help after the crash. He choked up describing one of the women praying over his apparently dying daughter.
Williams also said the care at the hospital had been excellent, and how grateful he was to everyone there. Real class act in the face of the tragedy combined with charges of racism.