Imagine being a surgeon, going to work every day, having to focus on real life-and-death concerns of your patients, yet constantly having to look over your shoulder for insults and humiliations, big and small, because of being a Black man in America? Welcome to the prestigious UCLA Medical Center.
Dr. Christian Head, a surgeon at the UCLA Neck and Head Department, talks about years of harassment, discrimination and abuse he encountered at the UCLA Medical Center and the lawsuit he filed in April, 2012.
Read more at Revolution newspaper.
See the YouTube about Dr. Head's situation.
If you want to contact Dr. Head, or offer support for his case, write to Michael Slate: michaelslate@redfuture.com.
The next installment of "Getting Down to BAsics With the People of Sanford." Michael recently joined the BAsics Bus Tour in Sanford, Florida, where Trayvon Martin was murdered, taking the vision and works of Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, to the people of Sanford, and building a movement for revolution. For Part 1, go here. Or subscribe to the Michael Slate Show podcast: http://tinyurl.com/7nyzltr.
