Claim: Photograph shows a KKK member being treated by an all-black emergency room staff. Status: Undetermined. Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2005] He ain't gonna make it! Origins: We don't yet know the origins of this image, one which supposedly captures a Ku Klux Klan member (presumably the victim of a trauma) being treated by an all-black emergency room staff. (One might think of this picture as the flipside of the familiar racial legends that falsely proclaimed singer Bessie Smith and physician Charles Drew both died from treatable injuries sustained in automobile accidents because they had been refused treatment at "whites-only" hospitals.) This photo appeared to be a posed or fabricated image intended as ironic or humorous political commentary, and the crease down the middle of the image suggested a picture scanned from another source, such as a magazine. (Despite many viewer's mistaking it for such, this image is not a screen capture taken from an episode of the popular television hospital drama ER, nor is the doctor shown in the center of the picture actor Eriq LaSalle, who portrayed surgeon Dr. Peter Benton in that series.)
