Discrimination against Black Doctor on Delta Flight
Flight Attendant to black Doctor: We are looking for actual physician
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Tamika Cross, a physician, was midway through a flight from Detroit to Minneapolis when a passenger emergency sent her into "doctor mode."
Sometime after takeoff, a man two rows in front of her suddenly became unresponsive, she said, and flight attendants called for help.
Cross, an obstetrician and gynecologist, said she immediately flagged down one of the crew members, offering to treat the man.
She got a response she wasn't prepared for.
"Oh no, sweetie, put (your) hand down," Cross recalled the flight attendant saying. "We are looking for actual physicians or nurses or some type of medical personnel, we don't have time to talk to you."
The reason behind the flight attendant's apparent skepticism? Cross says it was because she is black.
Cross described the experience on the flight in an Oct. 9 Facebook post that had been shared more than 34,000 times as of Thursday night. In it, she said she was "sick of being disrespected" as a woman of color in her profession and accused Delta, the flight operator, of "blatant discrimination."
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Delta said it has reached out to Cross about what happened. In multiple comments from the official Delta Facebook account, the company said the incident "does not reflect the Delta culture. We condemn discrimination toward our customers."
Racism comes in all sorts of ways. And this is a reminder about how dangerous it is, that they would rather let a man die than believe a black woman could save someones life
After reading that, to me it sounds like it wasn't because she is black, but because she didn't look like the professional they were looking for but looked maybe like some random housewife who wanted to complain or order peanuts or something.
To think that she was grasping at the last straw by saying that that woman doesn't look like a professional Delta tried to save face by giving her free mileage
After reading that, to me it sounds like it wasn't because she is black, but because she didn't look like the professional they were looking for but looked maybe like some random housewife who wanted to complain or order peanuts or something.
At that point, Cross said, a white male came up and told the crew he was a physician as well. The flight attendant sent her back to her seat, saying the man had his "credentials," only to return to her later for advice on how to treat the passenger's low blood pressure, according to Cross. The passenger eventually regained consciousness and was answering questions, she said.
After reading that, to me it sounds like it wasn't because she is black, but because she didn't look like the professional they were looking for but looked maybe like some random housewife who wanted to complain or order peanuts or something.
No. That flight attendant gave priority to white man first
that flight attendant should be fired.