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A Texas pastor admitted that he prefers white doctors because he believes their Black counterparts are more likely to have been given a "free pass" in medical school.
In an interview clip going viral on social media, Joel Webbon, senior pastor of Covenant Bible Church in Austin, revealed that he would always choose a white doctor over a Black one because “if one of them was not qualified and was given a free pass, it’d be the Black guy.”
Webbon went on to detail a time when his wife gave him a choice between doctors of different races.
“When we moved to Texas, I needed to get a new cardiologist," Webbon recalled. "And so my wife, she does a lot of this for me, because before we had kids she was an RN, and she knows a lot more than I do.”
“She does the research,” he continued, “and she shows me two doctors, both within the same practice, same company, hospital.”
“And one was a young white dude, and one was a young Black dude. And I said I prefer the young white dude.”
Webbon then gave his reasoning behind the choice.
“The reason why is not because I’m white, but because we currently live in a historical moment in the West, and particularly in these United States, where I know that both of these guys could be perfectly qualified. But I also know that if there’s a chance that one of them was not qualified and was given a free pass, it’d be the Black guy. I know that that young white guy, there’s no way he got a free pass," the pastor said.
Watch video of Webbon's comments below.
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