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What would I do if I was confronted with a white supremacist? And what if I was black? I don't know, and I think that is the point of the book. We all have our degrees of treating people differently, even if deep down we want equity, which, by the way, was such a poignant phrase. Equality is not the same as equity. Read the book for clarification.
So, Ruth is an excellent labor and delivery nurse. She has been working for 20 years and is known for quality work. Enter Turk and Brit, the proud parents of their first son. They, however, are racists, and proud of it. They ask to be reassigned a different non-African American nurse, and the supervisor agrees (what's up with that? I wish there was more about her. Anyway, as luck or plot would have it, Ruth is in a pickle since she is watching the baby because of lack of staff, and the baby dies. Should Ruth have helped? Should she have obeyed the wishes of her supervisor and parents? Now, enter Kennedy, her defender, white knight, who claims she never sees color. All three parties learn a little more about themselves during the trial, and the reader should, too.
So, why only 4 stars? The twist at the end. Too contrived.