NiaSmith

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MISS DEMEANOUR "Also, having a white friend who is married to a black man with biracial children doesn't prove anything. Heh, sorry, but that argument was used a LOT" um, i'm black and have personally seen my friends that are white deal with racist crap worst than i have

" one patient replied when i asked if i could help him,"no, i want the white nurse to give me my medicine." i said, "fine. i'll be glad to help you but since you don't want my help, i'll just sit here and put my feet up until the other nurse comes from her break." he replied, "no, that's okay. you can give me my medicine." hmmmmmmm... the thought of this african american nurse sitting and putting her feet up and getting paid for it rocked his boat." this had me crackin up!!!!

"i wish i had a dollar for every time i've been called a "white *word-that-means-female-dog*" or a "fat white *word-that-means-female-dog" or even a "racist white *bad word referring to female genitalia*". in our society, it doesn't seem to be regarded as a racist remark unless it's directed at a minority. yet in my city, whites are a minority! i will never forget a very famous case in washington state several years ago. the "hate crimes" law had just been put into effect, upping the sentence for anyone committing a crime with racial motivations. during the fat tuesday revels that year, a young white man was beaten to death with a brick. the police had the crime on videotape, clearly revealing the victim, the assailant, and the crime. the assailant, a young black man was chanting over and over "i'm gonna kill me a whitey. i'm gonna kill me a white boy." while convincted of murder, the crime did not meet the higher standard of being a hate crime. why? because the victim was white and the convicted killer was black. it seems to me that if you're going to call a thing racist, you ought to call it that no matter what color the victim and the perpatrater. otherwise the law protects one race above another and is in itself a racist law." i definately see where you're coming from, 2 of my closest friends are white females and the stuff they deal with is even worse than some of the things i've dealt with as far as racist people. one of them drives the city bus and so many ignorant people call her all types of names that all include white*insert bad word here*, for instance if she tells someone thay can't get on the bus for a perfectly logical reason like not having shirt/shoes on or for not having their correct fare, she gets cursed out, threatened, and called racist if the person is not white like her, not knowing she was married to a black man for 10 years and has 3 bi-racial daughters at home and she's just a nice person overall

Congrats!!!!!:balloons::ancong!:

"i often get asked if im the housekeeper (by staff that know what the uniform colors are) or where can they find cleaning supplies." that's just sad and disgusting, staff should know better, i used to get really ****** at stuff like that but i realized going into the nursing field i have to have thick skin, and i'm only taking my pre-req's, but students and teachers that are of other races, minorities, etc have had snooty attitude towards me in the past(i'm aa) so it's like whatever to me now

I'm sitting here just thinking about taking all my pre-reqs and how i'll probably be in school the next 4-5 years(maybe 6) to become a nurse and I just feel so discouraged like it's going to take forever to accomplish, especially since i'm 9 months pregnant with my first baby due anyday now:loveya:, my fiance and mother are so very supportive, especially since neither of them were able to attend college but since they never went to college i feel like they don't understand the pressure of picking the right classes, getting the perfect grades, fitting in study time, finding a good CSU if I transfer, and on top of it I stay in SF bay area where it's like every other person is all like I want to be a nurse which makes it extra competitive, and so many apply and later on quit nursing school when I feel that could have been another persons spot who really deserved it, I HATE thinking about it but I can't help it since I'm a stay at home Daughter/Mother(lol) and all I can think about is the near future. For awhile I didnt really tell people I wanted to be a nurse, because so many people say the same thing nowadays it's annoying, a few years ago WAY less people wanted to be nurses and now I feel like some(alot) look at it like the new IT THING to do because of the money, I'm only 20 going on 21 so realistically I'm still very young, but sometimes I wish I wouldn't have waited these last couple of years not going to college especially since I was a high school honor student, sadly I just wanted to work and go shopping, then reality kicked in and realized working at a sandwich shop forever wasn't going to cut it! UGH i don't know I just feel like becoming a good quality compassionate Nurse has so many obstacles and I'll never get past them

it's refreshing to know i'm not alone in this looooong journey, i just like to think of it as one semester at a time to prevent myself from going crazy! all required to be completed by the time i turn my application english 100(college comp) philosophy(critical thinking) psychology 11 (general psychology) math(statistics) and an online class for fun but is transferrable to the universities i'm applying to, english 231(mystery and detective literature because i'm a huge mystery book reader/fan:loveya: sadly i didn't get into any science classes and their waitlists were full too which means the next couple of semesters after imma be busy in mostly all science classes:cry: