The Chief Resident of Yale University’s child psychiatry program, Amanda Calhoun, tells people to avoid their conservative relatives.
She also seeks to avoid many white people. The Washington Free Beacon reports that “Though Calhoun is married to a white man, she is openly hesitant toward Caucasians and gatekeeps her husband’s white acquaintances.” She says, “My husband dropped a lot of white friends and acquaintances. He doesn’t befriend white folks now unless they meet me first…”
The Free Beacon adds:
Calhoun also says white therapists are inherently inferior to their black counterparts when it comes to treating black patients. “I also believe that white (and non-Black) therapists can never gain the unique and brilliant skill set that Black therapists can bring. You will never be us,” she wrote. “BUT a lot of ‘therapy experts’ still think that white folks can get there. Get to a place where they can match the expertise of Black therapists with Black patients (and other groups). This is a white supremacist mindset. You can’t. Accept it.”
Calhoun’s chief resident status at Yale—home to one of the highest-ranking psychiatry programs in the world—reflects the proliferation of left-wing activism within America’s top medical schools.
Ahead of the holiday season, Amanda Calhoun appeared on MSNBC’s The ReidOut to deliver a message to its liberal viewers: It’s okay to cut off your conservative relatives….”it’s completely fine to not be around those people and to tell them why. I think you should very much be entitled to do so, and I think it may be essential for your mental health.”
While such sentiments may be common enough among the resistance left, Calhoun is no average liberal activist. She’s a psychiatrist who serves as chief resident of Yale’s prestigious Albert J. Solnit Integrated Adult/Child Psychiatry program—and she’s not shy about her far-left activism and racial biases.
A Saint Louis University graduate, Calhoun began her Yale residency in June 2019. One year later, she was the keynote speaker at Yale Medical School’s “White Coats for Black Lives,” a demonstration held in the wake of George Floyd’s death in which “around 300 doctors took a knee in front of the Yale School of Medicine to demonstrate their solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.”
In 2023, Calhoun called for requiring doctors to wear body cameras, thinking that would demonstrate widespread racism among doctors. “If hospitals and medical institutions want to make good on those anti-racism statements made in 2020, prove it: Have health care professionals wear body cameras,” Calhoun said. “As a patient, I would feel far more comfortable if they did. And as a doctor, I will volunteer to wear one first.”
Two years ago, Calhoun said “jokes…can be just as detrimental as physical violence.”
