Tamika Cross is an OBGYN who was on a Delta flight out of
Detroit when a man on the plane got to be lethargic.
Being a therapeutic specialist, she responded to the tumult
by racing to the man's guide to check whether she could help him, you know,
being an upstanding resident and so on and so forth.
Be that as it may, Cross presumably overlooked for a brief
moment this is America regardless we're managing a bundle of bigot morons, on
the grounds that the flight crew wound up limiting her. Evidently, they
couldn't trust that a dark lady would ever be a specialist.
May you please read below full texts of her bitter racist experience in Delta flight DL945:
"I'm sure many of my fellow young, corporate America working
women of color can all understand my frustration when I say I'm sick of being
disrespected."
"Was on Delta flight DL945 and someone 2 rows in front of me
was screaming for help. Her husband was unresponsive. I naturally jumped into
Doctor mode as no one else was getting up. Unbuckle my seatbelt and throw my
tray table up and as I'm about to stand up, flight attendant says
"everyone stay calm, it's just a night terror, he is alright". I continue
to watch the scene closely."
"A couple mins later he is unresponsive again and the flight
attendant yells "call overhead for a physician on board". I raised my
hand to grab her attention. She said to me "oh no sweetie put ur hand
down, we are looking for actual physicians or nurses or some type of medical
personnel, we don't have time to talk to you" I tried to inform her that I
was a physician but I was continually cut off by condescending remarks."
"Then overhead they paged "any physician on board please
press your button". I stare at her as I go to press my button. She said
"oh wow you're an actual physician?" I reply yes. She said "let
me see your credentials. What type of Doctor are you? Where do you work? Why
were you in Detroit?" (Please remember this man is still in need of help
and she is blocking my row from even standing up while
Bombarding me with questions)."
"I respond "OBGYN, work in Houston, in Detroit for a
wedding, but believe it or not they DO HAVE doctors in Detroit. Now excuse me
so I can help the man in need". Another "seasoned" white male
approaches the row and says he is a physician as well. She says to me
"thanks for your help but he can help us, and he has his
credentials". (Mind you he hasn't shown anything to her. Just showed up
and fit the "description of a doctor") I stay seated. Mind blown.
Blood boiling. (Man is responding the his questions and is seemingly better now
Thank God)."
"Then this heifer has the nerve to ask for my input on what
to do next about 10 mins later. I tell her we need vitals and blood sugar. She
comes back to report to me a BP of 80/50 (super low, to my non medical peeps)
and they can't find a glucometer. We continue down that pathway of medical work
up, but the point is she needed my help and I continued to help despite the
choice words I had saved up for her. The patient and his wife weren't the
problem, they needed help and we were mid flight."
"She came and apologized to me several times and offering me
skymiles. I kindly refused. This is going higher than her. I don't want
skymiles in exchange for blatant discrimination. Whether this was race, age,
gender discrimination, it's not right. She will not get away with this....and I
will still get my skymiles....
Her Facebook post has received over 12,000 reactions and has
been shared nearly 5,000 times. There's no update on whether or not Delta's
responded to her remarks, but seeing the insane amount of traction this
disgusting story has earned her, it's safe to say that Cross has more than a
few SkyMiles in her future."
"Hopefully the flight crew on her fully paid for vacation to
Tahiti aren't a bunch of discriminatory, condescending tools."
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