The Glaring Difference in How "The Pitt" Portrays Black and White People

Before I get to the most egregious stuff that I'm about to show you, I just want to take a little sojourn over here to show you how they deal with black people on the show, okay? Already, they're all heroes. The blacks and the browns are the heroes, and the whites are the evils. But here's just a quick one. I've been talking about Dr. Heather Collins. She's the one who was rolling the eyes with the 17-year-old about her evil mother and who, to her credit, did not want to change the age of the baby in that one chart. But here's just a quick one how she gets referred to when a black woman comes into the hospital with her black son who is hurting, and this black doctor, Heather Collins, Dr. Heather Collins, is their doctor. Just as a quick one, shot 66. Hi. Look at this beautiful black queen. Are you our doctor? Thank you. Yes, I'm Dr. Heather Collins, and I take it this is Dylan. And I'm his mother, Tina. Nice to meet you both. Beautiful black queen. Okay. Great. Got it. I'm wondering, how are they treating white guys in general? Let's touch base and find out. Season one, episode 11, let's check in on this guy, shot 68. All indicators are that you have been using opioids. That would include pain medication like hydrocodone, oxycodone. I told them I don't do drugs. Wow. You lied to me. I didn't lie. I said I was giving you a morphine-like drug that got rid of your cravings. Wow. You know what? This is bullshit. I mean, you know I can sue all of you. I'm not some junkie on the street. Look, I got a family. I got a job. I make good money. I return my shopping carts. I pay my taxes. That sound like a drug addict to you? Yes. And he's even worse than some of the other scenes. So I couldn't help but notice the I return my shopping carts line. Okay. That's the thing. People talk about, are you a good person or a bad person? But that is in particular over the past few years, a Matt Walsh thing. Like he has t-shirts that are made saying that. And I actually thought it was very clever. He was the first person from whom I heard it. And now I think of Matt Walsh every time I return my shopping cart when I'm at the grocery store. I mean, I always do, but now I do it and I think of Matt Walsh. So I wonder, I do wonder whether that's an express jab at Matt Walsh. I'm a good person. I return my shopping carts. Meanwhile, he's a raging opioid addict. And if you see him earlier in the episode, he's obnoxious. He's demanding the drugs. He's very pissed off at a different doctor. Um, not Dr. Heather Collins, but Dr. Samira Mohan, the one who detected the sickle cell, who's an empathetic Brown skinned Indian doctor, uh, who didn't give him the drugs. She did the test to figure out whether he was addicted to the drug. So she's the hero you see. So you've got yet another Brown female hero and white male dickhead who's calling them names, denying that he's a drug addict and talking about he's a good person because of his shopping carts. Got it. Um, for several episodes of season one, there's a narrative that somebody has stolen an ambulance out of the ambulance Bay in front of the hospital and everyone's betting who it is and where it will be located when they finally found it. And, um, finally in episode six, we find out who stole the ambulance. And here's a little bit of You stole an ambulance. He did. I was dumb. We were going to drive it and bring it back to campus. I wanted the guy to see my guy. I think he was cool. Has a hard time. He doesn't really fit in. It's actually kind of sweet. Cops started chasing us. Mom's freaked out. Pretty sure you saw the It was just supposed to be a joke. Not worth going to jail. Mom's going to kill me. Okay. So there you have it. Surprise, surprise. It's a white college frat kid who made a pledge do it. And, um, yet another, yet another white guy in trouble. The most egregious one. I mean, we could be here all day. If we went through the number of sins committed by white guys, there's one white doctor, um, Dr. Frank Lang Langdon, uh, who is the surgeon. He's like, he's not the surgeon, but he is, uh, an ER doctor. Who's more of like a senior resident. And he's one of the most trusted doctors in the ER. And then we find out that instead of him being an authority figure, he's secretly a drug addict. He's stealing the patients, uh, opioids. And, uh, he tries to have the young Hispanic female doctor who turned him in fired. So he's, he's a nice guy for a minute, but he's made bad by the end. The one with the opioid problem, who tries to get the nicest panic female doctor fired. Uh, but here is probably the most egregious throughout the whole episode, the whole season one, we've got this obnoxious, angry flannel wearing white dude who's heavy set with some facial hair named Doug Driscoll. And in virtually every episode, he makes some racially tinged comment, some rude remark. He is entitled. He's nasty. He's belligerent. Uh, and I'll just give you a sample of what he looks like and how he's portrayed in here and sat 69. All right, let's get you back to the weight room. What? No, no. All I've been doing is waiting. I'm supposed to see a doctor now. Soon. What'd you know? It's a joke. It's good to laugh laughing our way to being a third world country. Remind you at home. No, we're not supposed to pick favorites here. I'm going to keep my eye on you. Think about this in 2006, $20,000 equaled roughly 33 ounces of gold at spot price at today's prices. Those 33 ounces would be worth about $165,000. That's why many smart Americans diversify a portion of their savings into precious metals. And that's why you should consider buying gold from Birch gold group for thousands of years. Gold has been a store of wealth. And today it's a crucial part of any balance strategy. Even better. 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Um, who is, she's like the, um, the charge nurse here. And this is what happens to her in a nurse, Dana Evans in episode nine of season one, Whoa, sir, sir. What is the issue? Oh, same issue. I've been here all day and you people have done nothing to ******* help me. I just want someone who knows something about hearts to tell me what's happening to me. You know, unlike most of these losers, I have insurance, good insurance, and I pay my taxes, which pays for them to not have any insurance. So you've got about five seconds to change your whole attitude before security and the standing outside having a cigarette, the nurse behind her Okay. So you get it. Um, the evil white men are legion in this show. There's one who is a child who comes in a great, another doofus who manages to get himself shot with a nail gun in the heart. Uh, we talked about the drug addict, the bully, the racist, like we could speak and be here all day. Unlike the beautiful black queen. And let's just check in to see what else we're missing. Perhaps we should look at, uh, episode eight, 59, where they introduce us to the freedom house ambulance service and a man named Willie Alexander. They turned out the very first medics in the United States. He started IVs, defibrillated, intubated in the field. They were the heroes of hill district, but it's a young black dude saving lives every day. Why'd you quit? I didn't. He said he saw how successful it was to go with the program, train new medics, everything that Willie and his friends did set the EMS standard for the country. It's so amazing. They talk about how he's a hero. This guy's a genuine American hero, Willie. And they created the first ambulance service, which led to the creation of 9-1-1. It was all black people in Pittsburgh, by the way, this is a real thing. Fine, fine to celebrate a little bit of black history, but no accident that they did. Trust me on that. You will not hear anything good about whites in any episode of the pit. There is no white history to be celebrated. There are only white foul mouthed racist bullies who are doofuses or molesting their children or stealing ambulances or insulting their coworkers or doing drugs while supposed to be helping people as doctors and then trying to get Hispanic women fired. That's what you're going to get about white men in America from the pit. Would love to hear your feedback. You can email me too, Megan, M-E-G-Y-N at megankelly.com, or just leave a comment below, but join the community by becoming a subscriber. We really, really value your input and your support. You may not always agree, but we are always going to talk about it and respect. No BS, no agenda, no fear.