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I Was Pregnant and in Crisis. All the Doctors and Nurses Saw Was an Incompetent Black Woman. Exploring African Americans' High Maternal and Infant Death Rates - Center for American Progress. Ariel Zambelich for ProPublica hide caption. Payne, who lectures on unconscious bias for professional organizations, recalled "the conversations that took place behind the nurse's station that just made assumptions; a lot of victim-blaming — 'If those people would only do blah, blah, blah, things would be different. And she decided to write a self-help book, on the theory that many people in the communities she cared about couldn't afford psychotherapy or didn't trust it.