Posted on 10/12/2014 9:07:36 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
The Rev. Jesse Jackson and a Dallas County commissioner have accused a Texas hospital of racism in the death of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan.
"What role did [Duncan's] lack of privilege play in the treatment he received? He is being treated as a criminal rather than as a patient," Jackson wrote in a story for the Huffington Post this week. "As followers of Jesus, we are called to work for the day when those with privilege, most often white people, have greater access to better medical care than those whom Jesus calls 'the least of our sisters and brothers.'"
Duncan, who traveled to Dallas from Liberia on Sept. 20, contacted the disease while in the West African country — which has become ground zero in the current epidemic. He succumbed to the illness Wednesday.
Duncan visited Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Sept. 25 after first experiencing symptoms a day earlier. Doctors released him, seeing no major cause for concern. Reports say that Duncan told doctors he had come from West Africa.
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I really think this one is gonna blow up in Jackson’s face, for a change.
We weren’t able to treat Duncan when he lied to us about his sickness. That’s not racism. Duncan is at fault for putting countless people in danger. I hope that the healthcare worker is the only one, but I could be wrong.
If there was the White-on-Black racism that these turd-breaths claim, they would either be dea or afraid to keep up their crap for fear of death. Funny how it’s them and their followers who do the most overt damage and harm to others for no other purpose or reason than that the victims are White.
The sun goes down every evening just to make it dark and dangerous where black people live.
/s
Of course it is racism. What else could it be?
/sarc
Has there ever been any corporate entity that has told Jackson to go f*** himself when he's shown up demanding a shakedown?
If not, it's about time. He is such a vile man.
Hopefully, word will get back to Africa that U.S. hospitals habitually mistreat and kill their black patients. That should help deal with the problem of other ebola cases with ideas about heading to the U.S. for treatment.
Man I hope Jessie gets Ebola.
(not necessarily that he die of it, just get the crap scared out of him enough to shut his trap!)
Every time I see that this Steaming Pant Load is still wasting oxygen I want to dig up James Earl Ray and kick his old moldy, decomposing @$$.
Jackson continues to imede the cause of a race-neutral society which necessarily would have to be built upon mutual respect; a respect he has no intention of cultivating, and which he selfishly and deliberately undermines to draw attention to himself and to obtain influence for himself.
I have to admit I wouldn’t disagree if you left off the part in parenthesis.
Bee ess Jessie you publicity hound
He should sue Ebola.
Any chance at all that racism could play a role in Jessie’s death?
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