It’s Time to Check In for Your D.E. Eye Exam

This vision test is far from routine—don’t forget that racism starts in the retinas.

Transcript

00:00Hi I'm here for my exam. Hi I'm Dr. Black. Have a seat. What seems to be the problem?

00:09Oh no problem just a routine eye exam. Before we get started I should let you

00:13know I'm not a regular physician. I'm a little special. Have you heard of DEI?

00:18Kind of. It's been in the news. Yeah it's really topical right now. Well I'm a DEI

00:22doctor. What? A DEI doctor. It's like a regular doctor but you know. No. Whatever

00:31it means to you. Should I not be here right now? Oh no. The question is should I

00:37not be here? Where did you go to medical school? Harvard obviously. Cum Laude. But

00:42I may or may not have taken the spot from a more deserving white person. Let's just

00:46get to the eye exam. DEI exam. I'm just gonna show you a few images here. Go

00:52ahead and read the letters on the board for me. B. L. A. C. Black lives matter. Yes

00:59yes they do. Next. I. M. Y. T. Yes you are and don't forget it. One or two? One. All right. Who's

01:08more qualified to be a commercial airline pilot Teresa or Jack? Teresa or Jack? They

01:18both look perfectly qualified. Do they now? Even though that's Teresa

01:21Claiborne the first female African American pilot in the United States Air

01:25Force but I'm sure they're both equally qualified. I didn't know that that's kind

01:28of cool. Who's more deserving of a promotion Winston or Michael? How could I

01:32how could I know that? I said Michael or Winston? Well Winston's asleep so it's not

01:39because he's white but Michael. Winston's asleep because he was up all night doing

01:44the work that Michael didn't finish because he was out parasailing or whatever you

01:47people. If I had the contacts. So the company's downsizing and somebody's got to be let go.

01:50Who's it gonna be?

01:52I'm not with HR and I don't want to fire anybody but I just gave the big promotion to the last

02:01white guy so I will choose this white guy. Of course interesting you said guy when it's

02:06actually Amy who provides for her entire family including her deadbeat husband Jeff and all their

02:12special needs kids. Oh come on I thought this was a vision test. It's about your vision for the future

02:18of this country okay racism starts in the retinas remember that. You're right I'm sorry I will do

02:25better. You know you actually didn't do that bad your vision hasn't changed much at all yeah I just

02:29have one more question for you here which of these should I put on my dating profile?

02:34Definitely the second one. That's what I was thinking too I thought so yeah

02:38You look really good now. Thank you so much okay amazing. Okay let's give you your prescription right

02:43there you go. This is just a Groupon to a hookah lounge? Yeah I DJ there on Wednesdays. Make sure

02:49you mention my name DJ Dr. Black and you get free water. Cool I love hookah. Just one water though.

02:54All right get out. So and rate me good on ZocDoc.