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Nurse Karen Goes On A Rant Claiming Black People Have Too Much Privilege (she got sacked for it now)
Indiana nurse loses job after rant slamming George Floyd and ‘Black privilege’ goes viral
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/indiana-nurse-faces-backlash-after-rant-slamming-george-floyd-and-black-privilege-goes-viral/
A nurse in Indiana lost her job this week after posting a rant suggesting Black people have special privileges. A video shared on Twitter on Tuesday identifies the woman as Kristy Ann Wilker, a trauma nurse from Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana. “Black privilege is thinking you are deserved or entitled to something because of the color of your skin,” the woman explains in the video. “They — people, black people especially do get special scholarships. They are also shielded from a lot of scrutiny because of the color of their skin.”
“I’m not a racist,” she insists. “I would never treat any patient differently, I would never treat any human being differently. I think God loves everyone. I’m on the same page. However, I don’t think that any race is above scrutiny, including black people.” The woman goes on to suggest that George Floyd, who was killed by a Minnesota police officer, had been wrongly made into a martyr.
“He started to have a freakout panic attack when they put him in the car probably because he was high on meth, Fentanyl and positive for COVID,” she opines. “Was the police officer’s foot in the wrong spot? Maybe but, you know, um, meth and Fentanyl and positive COVID are probably more leading factors to an [myocardial infarction] so do your research.”
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“Because I feel like Black privilege is bringing that up and throwing it in white people’s face so that they can get what they want and get respect,” the nurse continues. “But racism is dead.” Twitter users launched a campaign to contact Wilker’s work about the video. One Twitter user said she had told coworkers not to worry about black children with gunshot wounds because “none of them are innocent.”
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