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King-Drew Medical Center

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Contributed by: William Kus on 6/18/2007

I found it refreshing to seea community coalition trying to bring attention toneededimpovements at King-Drew Medical Center.

Although as much as I dislike bring race intoit,itsa reality though. It was refreshing to see a predominately black coalitionchampion the cause of a latino woman.

There's too muchdivision between the people, who benefit from having improved medical service, that the improvements will be slow and not quickly forth coming.

But if people slowly start caring about causes that may not personally affect their hearts, then things could change for the better.

People realize that the poor care that one person gets could have been you. People think that they may get preferential treatment from people of their own race. But when it comes down to it, eventually it won't matter.

Ypu'll find the same people who are racist will eventually turn on you too. It's just a hatred towards people, and racism is just the easiest way to catagorize it.

Instead of racism, we hate people because theyre communists, or because theyre democrats, or because theyre hippies or druggies or gangsters.

People just want an excuse to hate people. Not everybody, but lots of people.

Everybody is perfectly ok when something is unfair in THEIR favor. But when something is unfair NOT in their favor they get angry.

So even though it may be a latino woman who was the victim of negligent care, tomorrow it could be a black woman. Not that it may not have happened already.

But race shouldn't matter. That's why I'm stressing how important it is for multi-racial coalitions to happen to be really powerful.

That's why I think it's great that people of different colors are sticking up for people who don't look the same on the outside, but may be the same on the inside.

As an example I am a multiracial person. If everyone looked the same would we have so much problems?

Yes, we'd still have discrimination against people who looked different. Taller or shorter, long hair or short hair. It goes on forever. But at least we can try to stop it.

And at least we can try and stop it based on skin color or the shape of someones eyes.

Oh btw, I had a pretty violent motorcycle crash on the 105 one sunny day while working in El Segundo about a year ago.

After trying to go to work with blood dripping down my body and being sent home. I tried taking the Metrolink only to be turned away because of the dripping blood.

Eventually an ambulance arrived and took me to King-Drew, where I laid in a stretched in the hallway for a few hours.

It was a strange experience, I had major contusions/lacerations all around my body. I had flipped my motorcycle on the freeway going at least 30 mph. I wasn't wearing any gear but a helmet, some gloves and a backpack.

Suffice it to say, after a few hours of laying there while people with headaches and stomach aches were treated ahead of me, I asked to leave. I signed a paper and took the Metrolink home to North Hollwood, where the confusing rail line ended.

So I took the bus from there back to Sylmar.

Only took the whole day to get back home on the crappy public transit.

Not to mention that guys were smoking crack / speed in the back of the Metrolink, and were flashing a knife at me. Not like anybody ever checks any of the cars or anything, or there wouldn't be people smoking crack in the back.

They were white by the way. Just in case it was sounding like I was being racist or something.

I actually found the people in Compton to be very friendly, but I think they may have just been scared at the guy with no shirt on who was dragged 20 feet by akawasaki ninja on its side.

But the people were friendly, very open and not afraid to ask what happened. I had my motorcycle helmet so it was pretty obvious.

I also had bandages on both knees and elbow that were completely soaked in blood. All I had was some camoflauge shorts, my motorcycle helmet and my backpack.

But it was obvious to some teenagers on the train, it seems the undercover cops who decided to harass the injured motorcycle guy that it wasnt so obvious.

I may be crazy, but as I was waiting for the bus to go home in North Hollywood, a LAPD car pulls someone over right in front of me and takes them around the corner.

Around the same time a lady is walking down the street, short shorts, tank top, sunglasses, Lankershim Blvd.

Now I guess Lankershim has a prostitution problem, being that it has a number of sex shops and strip clubs. And many nice family oriented businesses.

But I guess it wasn't obvious enough that I had blood all over my body and a $400 motorcycle helmet, that maybe I really was waiting for the bus.

Now maybe I'm paranoid, but this lady, she sits down next to me and starts to go on about how every guy thinks she's a prostitute.

Now I am as happy as any guy to have a beautiful woman sit down next to you and strike up a conversation. Now she was dressed a little trashy, but she just wasn't skinny enough to look like she was strung out enough on drugs to be willing to sell her body.

She wasn't that bad off, and when I looked behind her sunglasses her eyes were nervous.

But anyways, she keeps telling me how every guy keeps trying to pick her up, and she keeps asking me if she looks like a prostitute.

And I don't even really say much, I'm not that smooth with the ladies, not to mention I had been in a serious accident.

She keeps going on and on about "I'm not a prostitute, I'm not a prostitute." Which was really strange because I had never brought the subject up and she was very obsessed with it.

Eventually her phone rang and she said her "friend" was coming. A car came by, picked her up and she was gone. And then the police car left soon after that was around the corner.

It sucked because during the conversation she was like "I'm not a prostitute, etc etc" and then she even had the audacity to make an allusion to MALE prostitutes.

She said something about how sexist it was for the men to assume it was just the women who were prostitutes. Regardless of whether she was trying to see if I was a male prostitute, i was very offended.

I mean I can SORT of see where she was coming from. I was sitting on a bus bench in the middle of the day with no shirt on, and camoflauge shorts in an area with a lot of gay sex shops, I can see how maybe I looked a little suspicious.

Maybe thinks Im a male prostitute that just got beat up or something. Anyway it was very embarassing

I mean I didn;t think anything of it, I just thought I was some super stud who had a girl talk to him.

But as I got home and started going over it a few days later, it seemed very suspicious the whole way she tried to drive the conversation to prostitutes. She made it very clear she wasn't a prostitute, over and over. It was very strange.

But then there's no way she can say she ever gave me the idea she was a prostitute.

No normal person would go on like that in my opinion. I don't think most women strike up a conversation with "Wow all these guys think I'm a prostitute, I'm not a prostitute" even though she does totally look like one and she knew it.

And she was way too intelligent to be the typical person who gets trapped into walking on the streets.

And she didn't look like she'd been addicted to drugs for many years. Usually the only reason someone is walking the streets.

Anyways I thought it was a funny story.

I mean I thought, who the hell was I hurting sitting there waiting for the bus.

Sorry I don't look like the typical person who rides the public transportation. And you wonder why.

Make sure you bait someone as much as possible when they are in their weakest moment. That's really fair.

Who's protecting me from undercover police? If that's what they were and not just my over active imagination.

But then I read a story in the newspaper a few months later and it's a common thing that they do these prostitute stings. So it made sense that that's what was happening.

But why is it ok to pretend to be a criminal to catch other criminals? Whats the difference really.

Like, maybe I was so desperate that I might ask her as aprostitute because she was so beautiful. Even though maybe I never considered ever approaching a prostitute.

But then a cop pretends to be a prostitute and approachs you and is really charming.

That is really unfair. :P

She was hot!

I mean men are putty in women's hands. An agressive women is not fair.

I mean there were guys honking at herup and down the street as she sat there. I don't know. Sheseemed to try pretty hard. While there were people trying hard to get her attention, she was busy trying to get my attention tobecome entrapped.

Maybe they should test out a cops moral fiber. Try testing the cops when they don't think anyones looking. Even when they are being videotaped by every member in the news media, they still act likegangsters.

Imagine how cops act when nobody is around, when no other cops are around. When they are off duty. They must have even less respect for the law.

Like that cop in Chicago who beat up the female bartender. I mean its not all cops, but some cops are just as bad or worse than any of the worse criminals on the street.

I have heard of a cop in Devonshire Division who was molesting the kids in the Explorer program. And other police officers framing suspects in Rampart, or police officers using racial slurs in the Rodney King case, it wasnt just Fuhrman but a culture of racism.

Now there's the MayDay Melee and many other incidents, like the girl who was in her SUV and got shot like 20 times by police and she sat there.

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