Jamaican Nurse Mary Seacole Puts Down Clueless Racist Clown [Long Shorts]

“Respected by those whose respect a value” slam dunk damn

And on that day they all asked the nurse to treat them for their burns. And the nurse said... No.

She ate and left 👏 no 👏 crumbs 👏 for Mary Seacole, cheers! 🥂

She was an extremely intelligent and talented woman. And boy could she dish!

Moreover, this speech made July 4, 1852. While slavery was still legal in the US, and on the day the US celebrated its freedom. The irony is overwhelming. Source: Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, by Mary Seattle (London: James Blackwood), 1857, p. 48.

"I drink to you and the general reformation of American manners." ... When your toast is flame broiled!

If there were mics in the mid-Victorian period, she just dropped one. Maybe she used a megaphone?

"The general reformation of American manners..." is a toast that would drown a planet before it is ever reconciled or realized.

Good onya Mary!! Well said. When I was in London I was pleased to visit Soho Square and see her house, which is marked by a blue plaque.

One of the politest "Up Yours" I've ever heard :-)

My jaw dropped when I realised he was not talking about her in her absence, but introducing her to his peers

Mary Seacole is frequently very funny. I love when she saw the building for a proposed hospital was without a roof, she included 'good ventilation' as one of the positives.

I had a fabulous nursing instructor in my university who read that to us! She was one of our community health instructors and it started our talk on race.

Judging by the specimens I have met here, and elsewhere I don't think I shall lose much by being excluded from it. Damn

Fantastic. To tell the truth, when I come across racism in the UK it's generally of this kind. Cloaked in good will, but needlessly insulting. Mary did well to answer it the same way. 👏 👏

I doubt the message arrived as intended. But that's the thing with idiots: If they were curable, they'd not be idiots.

In October, 2023, the UK's Royal Mint came out with commemorative coins in her honor, which is where I first learned of her. During the Crimean War, Seacole went to London to volunteer as a nurse. Although the Army needed skilled medical personnel, both the British War Office and Florence Nightingale, tasked with coordinating nursing efforts, rejected her services. Undeterred, Seacole travelled to Crimea built a “British Hotel” canteen where she served meals to the troops, provided respite to the sick, and ran a trading post. She also nursed cholera victims in Panama. A very interesting person.

She may not be a white man, but she is an icon, she is a legend and she is the moment. Much more than any of those “specimens”.

I wish i could like this 100k times!!! What a brilliant impromptu speech, not only a notable nurse but a brilliant and hilarious orator. 🥂🥂🥂to you, Ms Seacole!

In the immortal words of St Uncle George Takei: Oooooooooh myyyyyyyyyyyy!