by Jeroslyn JoVonn
December 23, 2023
The controversial video resurfaced as Dr. Jackie sat down with Vice President Kamala Harris to debate the Black maternal mortality disaster.
One of the crucial in style docs on Bravo’s hit actuality collection “Married to Medication” is responding to the backlash she’s receiving over resurfaced feedback about Black pregnant girls. The counterblast ignited after the Dec. 17, episode of “M2M” that highlighted Dr. Jackie’s sit-down with Vice President Kamala Harris to debate the Black maternal mortality disaster. It’s the identical session the Atlanta-based OBGYN and VP shared a collaborative Instagram publish forward of the episode.
“Black girls are 3 occasions extra prone to die from childbirth in America. That is inexcusable,” VP Harris captioned the video publish. “@therealdrjackie and I mentioned our nation’s maternal well being disaster on tonight’s episode of Bravo’s Married to Medication.”
However as soon as the sit-down hit the general public, it didn’t take too lengthy for some viewers to dig up Dr. Jackie’s earlier feedback about Black girls who “cry wolf” about being pregnant pains. It was a resurfaced YouTube session from 2020 that she hosted with fellow “M2M” star Dr. Heavenly Kimes the place they mentioned a few of the points pregnant Black girls face when receiving medical care.
“Typically, as African-American girls, we’re a bit extra dramatic and that you simply go to the physician and also you complain and also you complain and also you complain and also you’re not taken critically since you cry wolf all the being pregnant,” Jackie informed Heavenly.
“We wanna additionally just remember to’re being critical along with your physician and never enjoying the video games so that might take you off work,” she added. “As a result of then we see you 25 occasions within the being pregnant, it’s onerous to consider there’s a real downside when there’s a real downside.”
“This the actual Dr. Jackie, not that character she performs on Married to Medication,” one Twitter/X person wrote who shared the previous clip. “She feels like how yt OBGYN docs bash their Black feminine sufferers…Wasn’t she simply talking with Kamala Harris abt how Black girls aren’t taken critically in medical areas?”
Ultimately, the resurfaced video clip gained steam with swarms of individuals blasting Dr. Jackie for her seemingly hypocritical remarks concerning the Black maternal well being disaster.
“Complaining to take off from work? She’s harmful to BW as a result of we’d belief her and she or he’s simply as complicit with the white medical business,” one individual wrote.
“The racism and indifference many ladies complain about is coming from a Black lady who’s a Physician,” added another person.
There have been even alleged former sufferers of Dr. Jackie who took to social media to publish video testimonials of their childbirth horror tales they felt got here on account of Dr. Jackie’s misdirection.
Not a lot later, Dr. Jackie issued a press release to her Instagram Story saying the clip was “taken out of context” on a difficulty she has advocated for regarding the devastating downside going through the Black maternal well being disaster.”
“It has been my life’s work to spotlight and try to rectify the problems that devastatingly affect Black maternal moms versus our counterparts,” she wrote.
Dr. Jackie ended her assertion by declaring her continued combat to advocate for Black moms and Black infants.
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