Hundreds of medical students and staff stage die-in at UNM (NM snowflakes on the march)

The Albuquerque Journal ^ | June 4, 2020 | Anthony Jackson

[CedarDave]

Future health care workers at the University of New Mexico are fighting two enemies on the same battlefield: racism and COVID-19.

Around 200 medical students and staff staged a die-in Thursday afternoon at the Health Sciences Library to bring attention to racial disparities within the medical community and to honor George Floyd, the man killed in police custody in Minneapolis on Memorial Day. Several of the demonstrators lay face down on the ground for 8 minutes and 46 seconds – the length of time a police officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck, killing him. Others kneeled. Some prayed.

Alexis Gough, a third-year medical student at UNM, helped organize the event. “In order to address the systemic racism in our medical field, we have to take it on as a society … the best way to combat that is to have open, honest and long discussions with one another,” Gough said.

After the die-in, participants began chanting “I can’t breathe.”

Organizers of the event called on UNM administrators to meet with them within 72 hours to address concerns about the underrepresentation of Native Americans and African Americans in the medical field.

They also asked that officials withdraw funding, if UNM Hospital provides any, to the Albuquerque Police Department, Immigration and Customs Enforcement or New Mexico’s correctional institutions. And they’re asking officials to support “racial-based” data collection to show how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting indigenous and black communities.

“We fully expect that the university will be receptive to our concerns and we’re excited to see how that materializes,” Gough said.

[CedarDave]

I almost labeled this as humor but realized they are serious! Wonder how long it will take them to realize that it is colds that are systemic.

[Zathras]

Now we see Covid19 is really a weapon to damage Trump.

[CedarDave]

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[SpaceBar]

This was on the local news yesterday. Pathetic doesn’t do it justice.

[Responsibility2nd]

Did everyone here take copious amounts of meth and fentanyl before lying on the ground?

If not, then they are not truly honoring Floyd.

[GOPJ]

Commie Union Organizers are easy to track back...

[GOPJ]

This is the work of Union Organizers...

[Steve_Seattle]

"racial disparities within the medical community"

My experience in the last five years tells me that East Indians and Asians are becoming a very large part of the "medical community" at the upper end - doctors, registered nurses, medical technicians, and research. At the lower end - nursing assistants, adult-care employees - are a lot of recent African immigrants, Filipinos, Hispanics, and some American-born blacks.

If blacks aren't represented at the upper end, it's because they can't cut it or aren't interested, not from lack of efforts to attract them to the profession.

[Steve_Seattle]

Perhaps the worst thing about this fiasco is that refusal to participate could be a career-threating or career-ending move. It would certainly jeopardize your upward mobility.

[Responsibility2nd]

You know what’s missing here?

A knee on the neck.

And nice guy that I am, I hereby volunteer to assist these fine young people protesting by placing my knee on their neck for nine minutes. With my hands in my pockets.

Just trying to keep it real, yo.

[CedarDave]

The picture reminds me of Jonestown.

[TexasM1A]

But, can they breathe?.

[Responsibility2nd]

Jonestown. Exactly right!

Sheeple never change.

[hal ogen]

These leftist bums sure aren’t the “heroes” they are purported to be. brainwashed losers all.

[CedarDave]

The picture reminds me of Jonestown....

...except they are wearing masks and social distancing!

[JWNM]

So, if UNM were to remove all law enforcement from the campus, I wonder how fast the little snowflakes would whine that they don’t “feel safe”. Also, you would think that medical students would question the safety of gathering in large groups. I would imagine these same people were complaining about people protesting to restart the economy a couple of weeks ago, saying “it’s science!!!”

[CedarDave]

A few months ago the students were indeed complaining of not enough security on campus.

[crusty old prospector]

They look like sun bathers.

[sauropod]

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[cgbg]

This is cultural appropriation.

How _dare_ they?

;-)