Michigan hospital admits considering swastika-tattooed man’s request for no black nurses

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David Edwards
February 20, 2013.

A Michigan hospital on Tuesday admitted that it had considered honoring a man’s request that no African-American nurses care for his baby, but it insisted that the idea was eventually rejected.

Tonya Battle, who has worked as a nurse at Hurley Medical Center for 25 years, told the Detroit Free Press that she is suing the hospital because she says she was reassigned after a man instructed staff to allow no African-Americans around his newborn.

The charge nurse reportedly told Battle that the man had rolled up his sleeve to reveal a swastika tattoo.

WJRT obtained a copy of a sign that was allegedly posted above the the assignment clipboard.

“Please, No African American Nurses to care for [redacted] Baby per Dad’s request,” the note read.

Battle’s lawsuit claimed that a hospital attorney eventually told staff that the sign had to be taken down.

A source told WJRT that the sign was left above the assignment clipboard for about four hours.

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Comment: It is 2013 is it not?  Should the staff and management at this hospital not know better?

Who in their right mind can think it is OK to honor a request like this?

What absolute idiocy.  They deserve being sued and should be made to undergo sensitivity training to understand what civil rights mean in 2013. 

Do you think if a black father asked that white nursing staff not be allowed to care for his newborn the folks at this hospital would have even considered the request?

I have my doubts. 

Onward!