Kristen Davis

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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark · 457 - In With The Goths · 5 Dec 2024 podcast

That makes me think of leading up to the election, there was a video about this woman who made a T-shirt with the receipt from when she voted the first time, I think, when she was 18. Did you see that video? A black woman who's, you know, older now, obviously. And it was the $2 receipt for her having to pay a poll tax, which all black... people had to pay when they were voting.

That's what a poll tax is. Holy shit. When was this? When did she vote originally? Right. It was... I can't remember. I think she said it was like in the late 40s or so. Oh, my God. Because I would guess that woman was somewhere in her 70s or 80s, but I couldn't guess. But she did a whole speech on it.

And I was like, I've heard the phrase poll tax for so long, and I didn't know that that's what it was. Oh, that's fucking wild. And that kind of like, yeah, figuring out all these ways to restrict people or just get in people's way. Right. Yeah.

I know. Also, that's just like, again, you're just going about your day. You have other stuff to do. Yeah. And then you have that kind of like, just think of like the last time somebody yelled at you in a parking lot. Terrifying. Where you were like shaken and whatever. And it's like that being brought to black people's door multiple times a day. Constantly, yeah.

Or, you know, and back then, oh, you try to take any kind of action.

I mean, just the idea that it was such a strong case, so clear that actually it made these completely rigged white juries go, hold on a second. How are we going to do this? And we're hung.

I've never heard of this, like... This feels like I'm trying to rack my brain of like, have I seen like a movie about this or something?

Okay.

brave people that are not told you know and they're like they're crucial stories they're it's the details of how that kind of work gets done and pushed forward and it's by people who truly knew they were putting their life on the line and did it they didn't back away from the risk and they didn't back away from like all of that fear they had to just they kind of like lived in that fear and powered through it anyway and that's the piece of it that's

It's so incredible. It's like he didn't stay home from work. He didn't. He just kept going, knowing that he had to. Right, right. It reminds me of when they started the desegregation, Ruby Bridges. The five-year-old girl who had to, the first little black girl who went to a white school. Yeah. She's a baby. I mean, we've talked about this before.

I recently saw a picture. I know. And it was like her now. Oh, my God. And her from then. And it just like, they made a five-year-old do that.

being killed it's like it's just fucking insane it's crazy yeah yeah amazing job thank you thank you I wanted to not do that shitty so yeah no you did it great and also just like yeah I love that idea of like we don't know this let's tell each other so that we know it and other people know it totally

Well, we're going to take a turn, but it isn't really the turn away that we usually do, which I kind of love. We're going to turn toward a different direction. Okay. But also serious. Okay. Because December is HIV AIDS Awareness Month. Right. If you weren't there, many of our listeners were not.

But in the spring of 1980, the national news began to report on a mysterious fatal disease that was spreading across the country, almost entirely in the gay male population. Almost immediately, those who fell ill were treated like pariahs in the healthcare system. Being diagnosed with AIDS was seen as a death sentence, stoking fear, paranoia, and intense homophobia.

The AIDS crisis in America and the way it was handled by the Reagan administration and by some average Americans themselves will always be a stain on our history. But like most of the stories that we tell each other, There is a glimmer of light in this story because at San Francisco General Hospital. Sorry, I can't start it already. I just feel so proud. Yeah, I was going to say that.

Because at San Francisco General Hospital, a young gay male nurse from Florida will spearhead the first dedicated AIDS ward in the United States. Oh, my God. This is incredible. And when he does, a staff of heroic nurses and doctors will defy fears and cultural taboos to provide compassionate care to those patients dying from AIDS.

And that simple, generous act of compassion will ultimately prove to be revolutionary. This is the story of nurse Cliff Morrison and San Francisco General's Ward 5B. Shit.

I knew like a little, but again, it's that same thing where you're kind of like, I know a little. There's an incredible documentary called 5B that came out in 2018. So definitely watch that. And then there's also interviews with and articles by Cliff Morrison and fellow 5B nurse Allison Moad. Those are the two main sources and the rest of the sources are in our show notes.

Okay, so first I'm going to tell you about Cliff Morrison. He was born in the early 50s in Live Oak, Florida, which is a small town on the state's panhandle. And by his own description, Cliff says it's, quote, about 90 miles from anywhere. So Cliff grows up in poverty. No one in his family ever graduated high school, let alone college. They also didn't own a car, a telephone, or a TV.

He's like, enough. So when did he start? Like, yeah. That's fucked up. Serious. So he heads down to a small local hospital and he asks if he can please work there.

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