This thread keeps haunting me as I have noticed this time and again. I’m not sure this is necessarily about perceived race (as a brown person who “sounds” English) but a discrimination we need to be aware of nonetheless. I have seen much better doctors, with skin like mine but a https://twitter.com/fernandof1974/status/1281277090118225920

foreign accent, talked to like they’re idiots. Sound right (my own privilege included), make the right jokes and references and life is smoother. I don’t blame ppl for this as such, probably quite a natural social response. But is it how we build our workforce and provide care?

(I’ve written and deleted a version of this tweet for a few weeks now. Feels like a scary thing to talk about or open myself up to criticism for saying. But for that reason probably an important thing to confront)