Texas Nurse Files Lawsuit Against Texas Hospital After Years of Alleged Racism and Harassment
“It made me build up a lot of compassion I had for other people, and I wanted to do more and give more so I decided to become a nurse,” McMurrin said. McMurrin began working at MD Anderson in July 2018, but once the manager hired her left the hospital shortly after she started her employment. The Texas native said, her new bosses started treating her differently than her white colleagues.
“Once we brought those concerns forward, I got pointed as, it was you, you’re the one who went and said those things about me,” McMurrin said. Once she brought up her feelings of being mistreatment, McMurrin says she felt singled out by her bosses which kickstarted a series of events where she filed several grievances because of harassment. The allegations outlined in the lawsuit include McMurrin being overly criticized for small things like the way her voice sounds while speaking which caused her being written up.
“I’ve always had a heavy masculine voice, so I can’t always control the tone and bass of my voice if it’s perceived in an aggressive manner, and her reply was, ‘That’s why I’m sending you to a course so you can learn how to speak,’” McMurrin said.
McMurrin’s lawsuit includes a white co-worker criticizing her physical features as a Black woman, specifically the thickness of her lips, her hips, and how her makeup looks.
“She came to work and again apologized again, and she said, ‘I just felt like that was a compliment because I told my husband, “Jazz doesn’t have to buy boobs and a butt like I have to,”’ and it was just very uncomfortable,” McMurrin told Atlanta Black Star. McMurrin faced several write-ups and reprimands, including being assigned to work undesirable shifts in the hospital’s injection department.
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