Having worked in a variety of settings, yes, this is 💯% true. The “better” hospitals want the cash pay foreign patients over Medicaid covered Americans. There is a lot of wrong “Welfare Queen” trope perpetuation and resentment of certain patients. https://twitter.com/nat_laboss/status/1318646826250141697
My own dad entered the U.S. as a foreign #STEM student at @USC then offered greencard via employment - one reason I consider that university a place that needs to respond to my #BlackintheIvory concerns. I will NOT be so a called complicit “model minority” used vs Black Americans
When am passionate on a topic cuz I see harm & I see I am used as a bludgeon against #BlackExcellence, I don’t shut up

Universities & hospitals need to offer more than optics + hidden curriculum. Am a tuition paying #STEM b-school student & #womaninSTEM - how is my 💰 spent? https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1318828875082760193
This is not in the past given this now used as “precedent.”

But what Asian Americans need to understand is all of this is built on a foundation of anti-blackness where optics (assessment of race by skin color) was used to determine citizenship rights https://time.com/4574680/muslim-registry-japanese-internment/?amp=true
Yes, it is unacceptable and unethical that we are horrid to, even flat out abusive, to Black and brown children in #healthcare which is seen in sickle cell care in both adult and #pediatric settings - this thread is spurred by this tweet & responses I read to it. https://twitter.com/kim_buh_lee/status/1318347092499304448
If you follow #BlackExcellence and @citeblackwomen, if you listen to #BlackTwitter and #BlackMedTwitter (instead of self promoting, metric generating, optics buffing, narrative weaving fake equity) you too would also not be able to shut up on harm (or I would hope you would care)
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