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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2281970/Hurley-Medic al-center-The-racist-note-prompted-nurses-lawsuit-hospital-l et-Swastika-tattooed-father-dictate-white-nurses-care-baby.h tml This is the note that caused a nurse to sue the hospital she works for after they fulfilled a father's request to have no black nurses care for his newborn. Tonya Battle filed the suit against Hurley Medical Center in Michigan last week after she was allegedly barred from caring for the child in the neonatal intensive care unit due to her skin color. The note said: 'Please, No African American Nurses to care for [name] Baby per Dad’s request. Thank you.'When the father saw Battle caring for his baby, he asked to speak to a supervisor. The lawsuit states: 'The father told the [nurse in charge] that he did not want any African Americans taking care of his baby.'The nurses then had a staff meeting about it and went to the nurse's home to inform her of their decision to comply with the wishes of the man - who had 'some type of tattoo which was believed to be a swastika of some kind', the complaint read. The baby was immediately reassigned to another nurse. '[She] was shocked, offended and in disbelief that she was so egregiously discriminated against based on her race and re-assigned,' the court documents state. The name of the father who made the request was not included in the court papers. |