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In 2001, the American Civil Liberties Union convinced the United States Drug Enforcement Administration to repay $ 7, 000 that it had seized from a black businessman in the Omaha, Nebraska airport on the false theory that it was drug money ; the ACLU called it " flying while black ".

A pain specialist who treats sickle-cell disease patients at Manhattan's Beth Israel Medical Center reported that for many years doctors forced African American sickle-cell sufferers to endure pain because they assumed that blacks would become addicted to medication ; Time magazine labeled this " ailing while black.