It's always the old white men.
One of my besties, who is black, took her son to the DMV recently. She's a single mom, and her phone rang: her son's preschool calling about an evaluation she really needed to get going, and she had to take the call. A sweet guy behind her played some kind of hide and seek with her son, barely five, while she talked. Suddenly, she heard a nasty voice yelling, "Hey kid, SHUT UP!" Of course: old white man. Luckily a guy sitting nearby gave him what for on behalf of my friend and her innocent preschooler, but the damage was done.
During a 15-year period, black patients with non-STEMI had more comorbidities and were less likely to receive guideline-based therapies than their white counterparts, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
The nine-year-old black boy at the heart of a recent upsetting viral video is speaking out after an adult white woman wrongly accused him of touching her inappropriately in a corner store. His message is a powerful one - he doesn't forgive her.