by Dick Hall-Sizemore
In Halifax County, the home of the late former governor Bill Tuck, and a bastion of the Byrd machine, which gave Donald Trump, who wondered why we were taking in immigrants from “all these shithole countries,” about 57% of its votes in both 2016 and 2o2o, Sentara recently announced a new pediatrician being added to its “care team.” Her name: Akpomevigho Avbovbo.
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Governor William Tuck, Mills Godwin, and Harry Byrd at the 1965 centennial for Appomattox. Have you ever been to Buckshoals Farm Mr. Dick?
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I am embarassed to say that I have not been to Buckshoals Farm, although it is not far from the area in which I lived until I was about 12 years old.
By the way, that is not Bill Tuck in the picture. Here is another picture from the same event; Tuck is on the right. https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/newsadvance.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/5/be/5be454aa-fc32-11e5-8e1b-a36316c36772/57056b1c7b5a4.image.jpg?resize=1035%2C682
I was given a tour of Buckshoals about 10 years ago. It was awesome. Gov. Tuck, Churchill, and Ike! That must have been a fun day to be governor.
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Who is the guy in the foreground wearing a hat? Bob Dylan?
It certainly looks like him.
I dunno about Richmond but my Dentist last name is Yuh, my Gastroenterologist: PI and one more – Asfaw.
In NoVa – many, many specialists have foreign surnames and yep many are from Asia!
They all required masks and COVID Shots and they VOTE!
Dick, do you happen to know which s***hole country Ms. Avbovbo comes from? Do you know for a fact that it is a country that Trump would have classified as a s***hole country?
I don’t know where she is from. According to Sentara, she went to medical school in Grenada.
She went to undergraduate school and got her master’s degree at the University of Houston. I suspect that Dr. Avbovbo is from the s***hole country of Texas.
Not necessarily. My wife’s new PCP is named Enowataku. He attended the University of Wisconsin and MCV. He is from Cameroon (Trump’s characterization seemed to include all of Africa).
She may have been born outside the US. Or not. I objected to a Modelo beer commercial (Mexican beer) that featured NFL great Anthony Munoz. The tagline was, “It doesn’t matter where you’re from …”. Presumably, you would think that Munoz, like Modelo, came from outside the US. In fact, Munoz was born and reared in Ontario, California.
Yikes! She’s lucky she got out alive.
Forebears lists a similar name, beginning with “o” and not “a”, with serveral thousands in Nigeria. Oops found Avbovbo on the site. They have the Delta region of Nigeria as the origin with occurrences in the US. Average salary of an Avbovbo in the US is $37K. Interesting website.
Trump lives in Florida. Five blocks from the beach, and you’re in a S-hole country, and that’s the west coast. It’s worse on the Atlantic side.
I’m sorry but there are s***hole countries. Places where corruption runs rampant, the rule of law doesn’t exist and knowing anybody’s true identity or background is impossible.
Which is why there are so many Venezuelans, Hondurans and Nicaraguans in Mexico trying to cross our southern border. I’m sure most seek asylum on the basis that they’re escaping a s***hole country.
I was thinking more of Somalia and Iraq but Mexico and Venezuela make the top 10 list too.
https://bscholarly.com/lawless-countries-in-the-world/
How can anybody possibly vet the asylum seekers from a country with no effective government?
You don’t.
Exactly.
Hey, here’s all the S-hole countries in which your possible brethren reside or where you might’ve come from…
Spend a few minutes browsing any hospital or health system website and what becomes apparent is the diversity of the staff. Also, there’s another new doctor at Sentara in Halifax County:
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Boy, quite a change from the GP I went to while I was a kid in Halifax–not Wooding, but the other one.
Yes. Halifax was lucky to have such a good GP back then.
The best orthopedic surgeon who has ever operated on me is named Dr. Perumal. He is an artist with a stainless steel plate and screws. I think he might be from India. I’m not sure, though, because I never asked him, because I did not think it was relevant to his qualifications as a surgeon.
Can’t imagine why they couldn’t find a native Virginian to fill this position, instead of another one of those darned “come heres”.
57% xenophobic, but they all got kids.
The last four doctors I saw were all white guys, 3 of whom had names ending in “berg”, “man”. I’m pretty sure one is from that S-hole country Germany was in 1945.
Meanwhile, the VDOT residency administrator for Halifax is one “Kenneth Martin”.
Bet he speaks with a twang.
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