According to a couple Delta flight attendants, black women can't be doctors

[Victorian Gray]

I am not "sure" but first, CNN is fake news, so there is that. Also, what do you think was more likely, that the flight attendants at worst had some unconscious bias or that they asked her if she was a doctor, then conferred together and sat there discussing how it is impossible for a black woman to be a doctor so they went back to the situation a few times to check her qualifications and each time were just blown away that a black woman could be an MD? Not to mention we're going by one side of the story, the I want to be a victim side.

This whole story sounds like a bunch of nothing, but the left has conditioned people today to believe just about anything is racism and oppression. Fucking snowflakes.

Jackass

 

[Maxima1]

But for this actual case it was likely racist and/or sexist when they went against the current process to check her credentials and it became overtly racist and/or sexist when they accused her of passing off someone else’s identification.

I don't think this is necessarily about anyone having malicious intent. I doubt any of the FAs literally think a black person could never be a doctor as some here speculate. This seems like the Starbucks case where many liberals say the manager must have been racist, yet that manager loved conversing in Spanish with people, so it's probable her politics is the opposite of what some might expect.The fact the airline used to have a policy of checking credentials probably adds to the worry that someone could possibly fake it.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Just ran across this bit of info. Apologies if I missed it being posted already.

As we know, the old rule that the airline had regarding asking for id was ended 2 years ago. What I just discovered is the reason why the airline changed their policy then:

"On Thursday, a Delta spokesman told the Times that the flight was operated by Republic Air, one of Delta’s regional partners, and that as of 2016, flight attendants are not required to verify credentials of people claiming to be medical professionals.

That rule resulted from a 2016 incident in which a black doctor offered to treat a sick patient on a Delta flight and was treated with skepticism after flight attendants demanded “credentials.”

<interesting tidbit from same article>

"According to NBC, Stanford had just interviewed that doctor, Tamika Cross, on Oct. 19 at a conference on medical bias."

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/black-doctor-questioned-delta-flight.html

 

[Vic]

There's no doubt the flight attendants screwed up not once but twice here. First, by violating policy by demanding medical credentials, and twice by initially rejecting those credentials when provided.

The question seems to be, was it racism? Ok, why don't we ever hear about this kind of thing ever happening to white guys? Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence, of course, but... nothing ever? Can anyone cite a single example?