Savannah Vaughn Professor Diane Pressley Rhetoric and Comp ll. 33030 21 March 2024 Incompetent Black Woman In the ideal of this essay, the person who is writing will be speaking about the struggles African Americans struggle with during pregnancy. Sociologists together with professional doctors who are highly competent will explain different facts referring to childbirth, including statistics. Which will draw breath for everyone due to a few of us not being educated enough. Author, Tressie McMillan Cottom, writer of I Was Pregnant and in Crisis, All the Doctors and Nurses Saw Was an Incompetent Black Woman. McMillan Cottom argues that living as a black woman is really tough in this society. The treatment became worse when she was pregnant. …show more content…
McMillan Cottom begins by narrating her dream at the age of 5 at the beginning of her story. She tells the reader how she wants to walk in heels on a shiny, hard floor. Many of us felt that way also, while watching TV shows with dolls wearing heels became a happy moment for me. After the dream, she got into the story of her pregnancy. In the story, Cottom explained that she never felt incompetent during her pregnancy. She started suffering from symptoms of a miscarriage. Once she was done doing her tasks, she left to go report to the hospital. She starts by saying she started bleeding, plus she felt as though the doctors did not help her throughout her back-to-back appointments. While she was sitting in the hospital, despite her bleeding, she bled through her clothes onto the chair. She requested her husband to ask the doctors as well as the nurses if she could transfer to a private area. The nurses were alarmed and psyched out when they saw the chair being strained up. When she explained to the doctor how she bled through the chair, he said “She was probably just too fat, and the spotting was normal.” After the conversation, he sent her home. The examples support the claim, thesis, and purpose of the writer speaking on the