“People will die if doctors misdiagnose patients,” notes Elon Musk. That’s what will happen if UCLA’s medical school keeps admitting unqualified black students for racial reasons, and then letting them pass despite not knowing the basics of medicine. As a result of UCLA’s race based admissions, a professor recounts that a minority “student in the operating room could not identify a major artery when asked, then berated the professor for putting her on the spot.” A patient could die when that ignorant student graduates, becomes a surgeon, and operates on the wrong artery.
Aaron Sibarium of the Free Beacon reports that “Whistleblowers at UCLA medical school say it has dramatically lowered admissions standards for minority applicants. As a result, they say, 50% of some cohorts now fail basic tests of medical competence. We’ve obtained shocking internal data,” in a news story found at this link.
“UCLA medical school hired a new dean of admissions, Jennifer Lucero, In 2020. Since then, the number of students failing their shelf exams—standardized tests taken after each clinical rotation—has exploded, rising as much as tenfold in some subjects. That wasn’t a coincidence.”
“Race-based admissions have turned UCLA into a ‘failed medical school,’ said a former member of the admissions staff. “We want racial diversity so badly, we’re willing to cut corners to get it.” This is the story of how that happened.”
“Led by Lucero, who also serves as the DEI czar of UCLA’s anesthesiology department, the admissions committee gives black and Latino applicants a pass for subpar metrics, four people who served on it said, while whites and Asians need near perfect scores to even be considered.”
“Committee members who try to uphold standards are silenced. Two sources said Lucero attacked an admissions officer for raising concerns about [a black] applicant with low test scores….The candidate’s scores shouldn’t matter, she continued, because ‘we need people like this in the medical school.’ ‘We are not consistent in the way we apply the metrics to these applicants,” one admissions official emailed colleagues after the incident. ‘This is troubling.'”
“The school has consequently taken a hit in the rankings and seen a sharp rise in the number of students failing basic standardized tests, raising concerns about their clinical competence. ‘I have students on their rotation who don’t know anything,’ an admissions official said.”
“in some of the cohorts she admitted, more than 50 percent of students failed standardized tests on emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics.”
“One professor said that a student in the operating room could not identify a major artery when asked, then berated the professor for putting her on the spot.”
“Another said that students at the end of their clinical rotations don’t know basic lab tests and, in some cases, are unable to present patients. ‘I don’t know how some of these students are going to be junior doctors,’ the professor said.”
“‘Faculty are seeing a shocking decline in knowledge of medical students.’ And for those who’ve seen the competency crisis up close, double standards in admissions are a big part of the problem.”
“Another admissions officer said that the bar for underrepresented minorities is ‘as low as you could possibly imagine’ and ‘completely disregards grades and achievements.'”
What UCLA is doing is flagrantly illegal. California’s Constitution — in Article I, Section 31 — expressly forbids the state to have racial preferences for minorities in education, and that provision was upheld by a federal appeals court in 1997. But as the Free Beacon article explains, UCLA is flouting the law by making race a big factor in admissions, and disregarding the usual admissions criteria for certain races, especially blacks.
The very large, extreme racial preferences UCLA is using also violate federal laws such as Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. 1981, and the Constitution, because the Supreme Court has ruled that these laws generally forbid the use of race in admissions, with limited exceptions that don’t apply to UCLA, such as remedying the present effects of a governmental unit’s own past discrimination.
But UCLA civil-rights officials are contemptuous of laws banning discrimination against whites and Asians. UCLA’s Director of Race and Equity, Johnathan Perkins, has falsely claimed that “white people cannot be victims of racism,” and “only white people can impose racist harm.”
But the courts have rejected that position, in striking down various college affirmative action policies. Courts have ruled that racial harassment is illegal even when it is committed by blacks against whites, in cases such as Huckabay v. Moore (1998) and Bowen v. Missouri Department of Social Services (2002).
The federal courts have sentenced non-whites to prison for committing violent racial harms — hate crimes — against whites. Those decisions make plain that it is not “only white people” who “can impose racist harm,” as Perkins claims.
Yet Perkins advocates racial discrimination against whites, and frequently expresses racial hostility. He tells whites not to wish him a “Happy Juneteenth” because he will “flip tf out” if they do. He says that whites, unlike Blacks, “should NOT be awarded the day off for Juneteenth,” even though that is discriminatory. Perkins says that while “most” people “value community,” “white people do not.” He said on Juneteenth 2023 that he was “Blaming white people, who should ALL be working today, of all damn days.”
In 2022, Perkins reacted to the death of England’s Queen Elizabeth by saying,“Good riddance.” He also publicly yearned for the death of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, saying on Twitter that “no one wants to openly admit [we all] hope Clarence Thomas dies.”
Perkins has claimed that “every white person is racist to some degree.” But courts have ruled that “baseless accusations of racism” made against white employees because they are white can be racial harassment that contributes to a racially hostile work environment in violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. (See Underwood v. Northport Health Services (1989)). So operating on Perkins’ inflammatory assumption could lead to civil rights violations at UCLA.
