Video shows woman demanding ‘white doctor’ for her son in waiting-room rant
As the woman stormed through the Canadian medical facility, she was adamant: She wanted a white doctor to treat her son — not a brown one and not one with an accent.
“So you’re telling me that my kid has chest pains, he’s going to have to sit here until 4 o’clock?” she told an employee at the walk-in clinic in Mississauga, Ontario. “Can I see a doctor please that’s white, that doesn’t have brown teeth, that speaks English?”
.. Nadia Alam, the president-elect of the Ontario Medical Association, said that the vitriol the woman expressed was extreme, but that her sentiment wasn’t uncommon.
.. More than half of Mississauga’s 700,000 residents are ethnic minorities, according to the Canadian Census, and more than 20 percent hail from South Asia.
.. And at one point, another woman got in the ranting mom’s face and said: “Your child clearly has more issues with you being his mother than him needing to see a doctor. You are extremely rude and racist.”
But the ranting woman turned her ire on Bhardwaj and the other people who confronted her.
“You’re brown,” she shouted. “You’re brown. You’re all attacking me because I’m white.”
.. A sociology professor from Ryerson University in Toronto said “everyday racism” is “beginning to resurface” in Canada.