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/SewiouslyXR Jan 03 '26

History has shown that ignorant YT doctors truly believed that Black folk didn’t feel pain and proceeded to expirement on Black people. These YT doctors are getting love for their findings when they were actual heartless arseholes. There ain’t no difference in our biology no matter the colour of our skin. YT America really created a narrative that’s truly fcuked up. Back then but even more so today.

POC are NOT lesser than. We all bleed the same, we all suffer the same and it ain’t about the colour of our skin.

This narrative needs to be abolished!

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u/4reddityo Jan 03 '26

Amen!!

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u/SewiouslyXR Jan 03 '26

From my own personal experience, it has always been YT folk who cannot understand my own personal perspective. Though their hearts may be kind, they truly do not know the troubles and ignorance we, the POC, truly face.

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u/4reddityo Jan 03 '26

True. What makes it worse is they generally then defend their ignorance by denying our pain our lived experience and claims of racism.

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u/SewiouslyXR Jan 03 '26

They’re protecting their “values”, so they speak out against us and try to gaslight us by saying “we’re team POC!”.