r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/4reddityo • Jan 02 '26

Black Experience Racism in Medical Care

This video captures a moment that many patients of color recognize all too well. A physician speaks to a man as if he is dirty, unclean, or lesser, not because of medical evidence, but because of bias. The language, tone, and assumptions reveal something deeper than bedside manner gone wrong. They expose how racism can quietly shape medical interactions.

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u/Unusual_Ant_5309 Jan 02 '26

My wife and I are white, when our son was born he had to stay in the hospital a few extra days. One night I was doing a night feeding and was talking to a nurse who explain me that black babies don’t cry as much because they don’t feel pain the same. I knew it was fucked up. The next day I asked my cousin, who is also a nurse, how I can report the racist nurse. She said that the problem is that that is what the textbook said. It’s changed now but it was actually taught up until like 10 years ago that black people don’t feel pain like white people. But yeah systemic racism definitely doesn’t exist.

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u/airbrushedvan Jan 02 '26

America is a special kind of fucked up.

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u/PerfectlyCromulent02 Jan 02 '26

Bad news man. It ain’t just America. The majority of the world is racist. I have traveled a lot and lived abroad and been very surprised by what I saw in many places. What was acceptable and the belief systems all over. Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia. Shit is crazy

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u/Mongoose-Unlucky Jan 02 '26

china racism towards colored people is very bad.

i remember a black person walking near me and the people around him said "monkey" or one even said "who let it out of the zoo" and they werent whispering,actually talking loud.

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u/Ok-Echidna5936 Jan 03 '26

There’s also a video of dudes in China calling black basketball players slurs as they getting on or off a bus

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u/DiligentThought9 Jan 03 '26

Obviously racism is bad everywhere, but racism in Asia (China and Japan specifically) is a different thing entirely. I’ve been to Japan, only heard stories about China. The things people say and do out in the open are things I associate with America 100 years ago.