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Showing Original Post only (View all)Racist father forbid AA nurse to handle new baby ~Hospital obliges [View all]
A nurse is suing a hospital, claiming it agreed to man's request that no African-Americans care for his baby.
The lawsuit accuses managers at Hurley Medical Center in Flint of reassigning Tonya Battle, who has worked at the facility for 25 years, based on the color of her skin.
The man approached Battle, while she was caring for his child in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit, asking to speak to her supervisor, according to the complaint filed in January by Battle's attorney.
She pointed the charge nurse in his direction.
The man, who is not named in the filing, allegedly showed her a tattoo that may have been "a swastika of some kind" and told her that he didn't want African-Americans involved in his baby's care.
The lawsuit accuses managers at Hurley Medical Center in Flint of reassigning Tonya Battle, who has worked at the facility for 25 years, based on the color of her skin.
The man approached Battle, while she was caring for his child in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit, asking to speak to her supervisor, according to the complaint filed in January by Battle's attorney.
She pointed the charge nurse in his direction.
The man, who is not named in the filing, allegedly showed her a tattoo that may have been "a swastika of some kind" and told her that he didn't want African-Americans involved in his baby's care.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/16/us/michigan-hospital-discrimination/index.html
WTF! How could the hospital allow this, and why does the racist asshole father get to keep his anonymity?
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Racist father forbid AA nurse to handle new baby ~Hospital obliges [View all]
boston bean
Feb 2013
OP
Good questions. I would like to know too. Let him take his kid to a KKK hospital.
MotherPetrie
Feb 2013
#1
Something that egregious needs as many threads as it takes to make the even known.
shraby
Feb 2013
#11
It was well established in the other thread that the hospital had no such obligation to the father.
Nine
Feb 2013
#16
FFS. Someone tell SFB skin color can't be passed on. Can't believe he got away with this!
freshwest
Feb 2013
#19
Dumbass racist-come-lately. That would be considered fucked up even in the Antebellum South!
Tom Ripley
Feb 2013
#23