Thread by @Tinu

A6c. Yes, definitely there's a racial aspect. I've been profiled at hospitals as a drug addict too many times. Refused treatment. Given the wrong treatment. Mistreated before surgeries.

Not enough room to list the indignities.
#medtraumachat

A6c. Occasionally welath privilege or class privilege or the fact that I sound "respectable" or know who to harass has been a partial shield.

But the extra hoops I have to jump through are thefts if my time & energy. #medtraumachat

A6c. I mean if all things? A drug addict? Me. Who quits things like coffee or soda or meat or salt for years, just to see how I feel.

It makes my friends laugh because I wouldn't even try weed until I was 35. #medtraumachat

There's this prevalent myth that black people want racist things to happen to us so that we can prove racism is real. Not true. #medtraumachat

As with sexism, we've had all the proof we'd ever need for centuries. If this was about proof, it would be over. What we want us for racism to stop. Period. #medtraumachat

I hate it when things turn out to racism. I hope it's anything else. Yes there are people who leap to that conclusion too much.

IT'S NOT WITHOUT BASIS THOUGH.

#medtraumachat

Because that means someone looked at me & decided something against me before I even have a chance to represent myself.
#medtraumachat