‘Black Bachelorette’ Dr. Misee Harris Forced To Resign Dent. Practice For M. Brown Support
By Tiffany Willis on September 15, 2014
Dr. Misee Harris — a pediatric dentist best known as the “Black Bachelorette” — was harassed and forced to resign from her dental practice after showing outspoken support for slain teen Michael Brown and the Ferguson, Missouri protesters.
Prior to her voicing her concern on her private Facebook account about what was going on in Ferguson, Dr. Harris was beloved and respected by staff and patients at the dental practice where she had been offered a partnership.
From Black Girl Nerds:
A shocked Dr. Harris composed herself before asking the doctor who was leading the meeting if she had any idea what was going on in black America. She was astonished to learn that the woman didn’t even know Michael Brown’s name. The offending doctor also seemed to think it was totally OK to attack Dr. Harris based on her personal views. Dr. Harris was then informed that she would have to choose between her “style of social media communication” and her position as a pediatric dentist in that practice.
The choice was easy for Dr. Harris, as it would be for any principled person.
She nailed it with this statement:
“It is as though the partners at my former dental practice believe that a black person who has made it to success in a white-dominated field like dentistry is expected to show gratitude and humility, and to ‘act white.
This is the image that offended the other dentists and staff in the practice.
http://www.liberalamerica.org/2014/09/15/misee-harris-forced-to-resign-ferguson/
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of her ex-colleagues. Not surprised at all. Typical of institutionalized racism in amerikkka. And the power to enforce that racism? Forcing her to resign(firing) her. I applaud her decision made on the most solid rock of principle. Yay Dr. Harris! BRAVO.
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Discussionist is missing you, by the way.
And don't worry, everything will be all white! 
Breathing!
Existing!
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please love me, please be grateful, please pump me up and tell me i am wonderful 
please don't see me for exactly who i am.
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WARNING, PROFANITY:
Who Is the Wrongest Person in John Crawford's Walmart Shooting?
If you watch the video surveillance footage of black man John Crawford walking the aisles at the Beavercreek, Ohio, Walmart, you see a black man, looking black, engaged in the black act of shopping while black. This black man's greatest sin is that he mindlessly picked up a BB gun while black and continued to shop while black at Walmart...
That is a badass looking BB gun. Made in the US of A, like all good guns should be, except for all those cool ones we get from China. Yep, a black man would look awfully scary waving that around and pointing it at children, as 911 caller Ronald Ritchie said Crawford was doing.
Except here's the problem. The video footage of his entire time holding the rifle, from the moment he picked it up to the moment he dropped it after being shot by the cops, he doesn't aim it at anyone. And when the cops enter, not only is no one anywhere near Crawford, but when he is shot, it is from all the way down the aisle. Seriously, not a goddamn person is around him:
...No, the Rude Pundit is gonna go with Ronald Ritchie here as the most utterly wrong motherfucker in this whole situation. A George Zimmerman without the same level of commitment, when he called 911, Ritchie lied to the dispatcher about what he saw, as he later revealed in an interview with the Guardian. "At no point did he shoulder the rifle and point it at somebody," Ritchie said a month after the incident, which is the opposite of what he said on the 911 call. He told the dispatcher that he thought he saw Crawford loading the gun with bullets, which, as we know, would have more than likely involved pouring tiny metal balls into the magazine. The dispatcher relayed that information to the cops, that a 6-foot tall black man was waving around a gun and pointing it at people at Walmart. Ritchie even lied about the shooting, saying that Crawford swung around and pointed the gun at the police. No, he did not. Ritchie knew he was lying...
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2014/09/who-is-wrongest-person-in-john.html
Article referenced by RP has a video of the scene at the time with Ritchie lying to the police dispatcher, fortunately, not the shooting itself. It is Walmart's surveillance footage synced with Ronald Ritchie’s 911 call to Ohio dispatchers from the time stamp changing on the video.
'It was a crank call': family seeks action against 911 caller in Walmart shooting
Family of John Crawford, man shot dead by police while holding an unloaded BB rifle, say call was a ‘bunch of lies’
The family of a young black man who was killed by police in an Ohio Walmart while holding an unloaded BB rifle and speaking on his cellphone have called for action to be taken against a 911 caller who claimed he was pointing the gun at people.
John Crawford III was shot dead last month by an officer responding to an emergency call made by Ronald Ritchie, a shopper standing 100ft away, who repeatedly stated to the dispatcher that Crawford was pointing the air rifle at customers...
The children who Ritchie appeared to claim were under threat from Crawford were in the store with their mother, Angela Williams. Williams, 37, died of a heart attack in the panic that ensued among customers following the police shooting. “I hope that he’s happy with himself,” her teenage son said of Ritchie in a Facebook post earlier this month.
Ritchie also told several reporters after the shooting that he was an “ex-marine”. The Guardian disclosed last month that he was thrown out after seven weeks in 2008, after being declared a “fraudulent enlistment”. He states that the problem was a mix-up in his paperwork....
More infuriating details at:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/26/walmart-ohio-shooting-charges-911-calller-john-crawford
And Ronald Ritchie is not in jail for what reason, since he's admitted he was lying? Could it be a case of uh, racism?
Hey, just an anonymous online poster here, not an attorney.
What was done to this dentist is an example of professional in-your-face racism. I don't care what the mealy mouths are going to say to excuse it. That cartoon is very mild, and the way they treated her, her career and the advocacy work she was doing was shameful. I hope she sues the pants off the little lynch mob there. There is more than one way to lynch a person of any standing, using the tried and true method of character assassination.
And John Crawford III is still dead at this time, and she did not go that far. Americans, white Americans, that is, must stop acting like this does not happen anymore.
That's just my opinion, though.
the one good thing about the tea party and other white supremacists is that they've brought racism into the forefront. NOW we know for sure that the people who deny racism exists, or how bad it still is, are nothing but RACISTS. there is no more "it's just a few bad apples," or "everyone can be racist." we see clearly who is perpetuating racism and trying to shove it down our throats. hint: it is not black people. and it most certainly isn't all white people. but there clearly is a faction of american whites who are ALL IN for blatant racism.
you nailed it!No doubt she was being harassed over her political views....but given that this is Tenn., I can't say I'm terribly surprised.
The good news is, though, is that it seems that a whole bunch of other offices in the area have been offering her a position, so I hope that works out for her. Good luck, Dr. Harris! 
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that this was the most unsurprising article which I have read in a while.
Some of my best friends and "fellow travelers" (yes I know what that really "means"
from the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War days from college and dental school have become RABID RWers.
and yes, I do think the white people in that office are "just like that!" Racist thru and thru. I'm white BTW. Don't know if that office qualifies for a workplace complaint, but I hope she talks to an attorney about sueing them for wrongful discharge.
wearing those idiotic "i am darren wilson" bracelets? are you NOW?
and even THEN I would have disagreed with the firing, but in the privacy of her
own home, on her facebook page?..That's nuts, and, in my opinion, a definite
case of unlawful termination -- I hope she's seeing a lawyer.
By the way, I don't think she was "acting Black" or "acting White", she was
acting FAIR, i.e., like someone with a brain and a conscience 
and this one.
Insulting your boss and complaining about your job, is hardly in the same
league as expressing your concerns about the rash of recent killings of
young Black men -- for virtually NOTHING -- by White people, especially cops.
Photographing yourself and your buds as would-be-presidential assassins
is also not in the same league -- The dentist who lost her job did NOT
express any violent desires, whatsoever, and she ALSO never insulted her
boss or complained about her job.
I don't understand how you can't see the difference. I also can't understand
your comparing a group of Black dentists firing a White person for "anti-Black"
comments, to expressing concern about illegal killings.
How is that "anti-white"? 
That's why you keep repeating that you were "simply responding" to the issue of "discipline at work for FB"
even though we reached agreement on that point six posts ago. 
Sorry bro, but by posting on the thread initially, you "elected" to decide what happened on the basis of the information
provide in the thread. That's the way these things go. That being said, I sense you're new to this sort of rigorous discussion,
but that's OK --Just stick around for awhile -- You'll get the hang of it.
at times! Standing up for a murdered by cop teenager! How dare she!
Bet she lands in a much better place... 
Michael Brown
thank you.
