Alexander Morris, who is Black, says Michigan hospital workers assumed he was delusional for saying he was in the Motown band as he experienced “cardiac distress.”
Lawrence Payton, left, Alexander Morris, Lewis McNeir and Duke Fakir of the Four Tops in 2019. The lead singer of the Four Tops Motown band is suing a Michigan hospital and two staff members, alleging racial discrimination after they wrongly treated him as if he was mentally ill when he identified himself as a member of the group.
The Four Tops — which propelled Detroit’s contemporary soul scene to worldwide fame in the ’60s as a hit machine for Motown Records — continues to tour with founding star Duke Fakir. When he tried to resolve the mistake by asking to show identification, the lawsuit alleges, a White security guard told him to “sit his Black ass down.”Morris alleges that instead of receiving “desperately needed” treatment for a cardiac emergency, his belongings were removed and he was placed in a restraining mechanism under the supervision of several security guards, who denied his requests to seek treatment elsewhere.
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