UCLA Med School sued for racial discrimination: aka racism

UCLA’s medical school is in a hot mess, and it’s about time. A federal class-action lawsuit just dropped, accusing the school and its officials of thumbing their noses at both California law and a Supreme Court ruling by using race as a factor in admissions. Racism much?

That’s right—despite affirmative action being illegal in the Golden State since 1996 and getting the boot nationwide in 2023, UCLA’s allegedly been playing fast and loose with racial preferences. And the evidence is overwhelming.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in California’s Central District federal court, comes courtesy of Do No Harm, a group founded in 2022 to squash affirmative action in medicine. Students for Fair Admissions, the folks who took down Harvard’s race-based admissions at the Supreme Court, and Kelly Mahoney, a college grad who got the cold shoulder from UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, worked to stop the medical school and UCLA officials from “engaging in intentional discrimination on the basis of race and ethnicity in the admissions process.” 

Good luck finding a clearer case of alleged wrongdoing and what one might consider to be racism where one group of folks with immutable characteristics is favored over another group, usually White people, particularly White men.

This mess kicked into high gear last year when the Washington Free Beacon blew the lid off UCLA’s admissions practices. The report zeroed in on Jennifer Lucero, the dean of admissions, who is accused of prioritizing race over merit. Things got spicy during a 2021 admissions meeting when a Black applicant with grades and test scores “far below the UCLA average” came up for review. Some committee members dared to question if this candidate was cut out for a top-tier medical school. Lucero’s response? She lost her excrement.

“Did you not know African-American women are dying at a higher rate than everybody else?” Lucero reportedly snapped at an admissions officer. The candidate’s subpar scores were irrelevant to the discussion. 

“We need people like this in the medical school,” she insisted. Translation: Forget qualifications, it’s all about the agenda.

California banned affirmative action in admissions nearly three decades ago, and the Supreme Court doubled down in 2023. This kind of race-based decision-making is supposed to be dead and buried, but under Lucero's watch, starting in 2020, it’s allegedly been business as usual. 

The results have been catastrophic. 

UCLA’s medical school plummeted from 6th to 18th in U.S. News & World Report’s rankings for medical research within three years of Lucero’s hiring. In some cohorts she admitted, over 50 percent of students flunked standardized tests in emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatrics. We’re talking future doctors who can’t hack the basics in medical intervention.

Naturally, it gets worse. 

One professor recounted a student in the operating room who couldn’t identify a major artery when asked, then had the gall to berate the professor for calling her out. Another said students finishing clinical rotations were clueless about basic lab tests and, in some cases, couldn’t even present patients properly. This is what happens when you ditch merit for quotas.

Lucero, who moonlights as the vice chair for equity, diversity, and inclusion (D.E.I.) in UCLA’s anesthesiology department, allegedly led the charge to lower the bar for Black and Latino applicants while demanding near-perfect scores from Whites and Asians. One admissions committee member put it bluntly: The bar for underrepresented minorities is “as low as you could possibly imagine.” After all, who needs competency and grades when you have diversity, yadda yadda.

Here’s the kicker: Lucero’s too slick to openly admit it’s about race. Instead, she reportedly used proxies like zip codes to achieve the same discriminatory results. Sneaky, but not sneaky enough. The Free Beacon’s bombshell last May sparked an investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in March 2025. 

HHS’s Office of Civil Rights is now digging into whether Lucero’s admissions office holds Black and Hispanic applicants to a lower standard than their White and Asian peers. “HHS will not tolerate informal admissions practices and institutional policies that promote racial discrimination at HHS-funded institutions,” the agency told the outlet. “This investigation reflects the Administration’s commitment to honor the hard work, excellence, and individual achievement of all students and not just those of particular racial backgrounds.” 

By lowering requirements for any group of people clearly implies that they are considered to be inferior to those one expects the highest standards. This is what might be called 'quiet racism.'

But wait, there’s more. Just days before the lawsuit hit, The Free Beacon dropped another bombshell: UCLA is still doing it and thus is breaking the law.

On April 8, the medical school circulated a memo outlining “guiding principles for student representation on the admissions committee,” which includes third- and fourth-year medical students alongside faculty. The guidelines mandate considering race when picking student admissions officers. “The Chairs of the [admissions committee] will review all submitted recommendations to ensure representation from those who identify as BIPOC and LGBTQ+,” the memo reads, according to a screenshot obtained by The Free Beacon.

 

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Legal experts are floored. “Putting in writing, while under federal investigation for discrimination, that your faculty will ‘review’ the proposed slate of students included in a program ‘to ensure representation from those who identify as BIPOC and LBGTQ+’ is astonishingly brazen,” said Dan Morenoff, executive director of the American Civil Rights Project. “You have to wonder how it’s possible for no one either in the administration or with its outside counsel to even roughly read either the law or the room.” 

Let’s cut to the chase: This is as clear-cut as it gets. California law and federal law both say race-based admissions are illegal. UCLA’s medical school, led by Lucero, is allegedly flouting both while producing doctors who can’t pass basic tests or identify arteries and might even pass out at the sign of blood, for all we know.

The lawsuit needs to deliver a wake-up call—fire Lucero, recommit to merit, and stop this discriminatory nonsense. If not, UCLA’s not just failing its students; it’s failing every patient who’ll one day depend on them. Stay tuned, because this fight’s just getting started.

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Cornell defends its "No Whites Need Apply" rock-climbing class

There used to be a time when racism was unacceptable. We fought a Civil War to end it and more people died in that war than any other on our soil. But now racism has become acceptable, but only when it's aimed against people born white. 

And it's disgusting, and it's immoral.

Cornell University, an anti-White Ivy League school in New York, developed a rock-climbing class for the spring, offered to minority groups only; no Whites need apply.

The Outdoor Education offering was a course called "BIPOC Rock Climbing." The term "BIPOC" stands for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. It includes pretty much every group of people except for "Whitey." It even includes Asians in spite of the fact that they are discriminated against in admissions to some schools such as Harvard because they score higher than the other BIPOCers. 

The course description, according to The Cornell Daily Sun, specified that the class was “for people who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, or other people of color.” 

The term "Latinx" is a term used by morons to replace the word "Latinos" because they need to change everything to feel important and virtuous, although they never did anything virtuous themselves but condemn others for not being as good as they claim to be, often by implying so. This is one of the main reasons they are morons.

The racist rock-climbing BIPOC pukes prompted people from across the internet to hit back at their racism. 

Cornell was accused of violating federal and state civil rights law while one Reddit user decried what they described as a “horrifically and monstrously racist practice that has no place in the modern world” and “literally evil.”

Earlier this year, the course description for “BIPOC Rock Climbing” was changed to read: “This class is designed to enable Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, or other people of color underrepresented in the sport of rock climbing to learn the sport and to feel included and supported. The class is open to all Cornell students interested in learning rock climbing with this special focus.”

Is it possible that people of color are "underrepresented" in the sport because they find it even less exciting than, say, "Chutes and Ladders"? And by excluding White people from the class, how does that increase the number of non-whites from enrolling in it? It simply excludes one racial group and favors all others.

Sorry, but I cannot help being White anymore than my wife can help being a woman of color. Our skin color doesn't define us for who we are other than the differences that need to be taken into account in photography and sunbathing.

Instructor Matthew Gavieta, a junior, explained that the BIPOC course was meant to help alleviate what he called “an issue of inaccessibility for minorities in this white-centric sport.” 

So how does allowing all students to enroll in this class make it inaccessible for minorities? Explain that please because it doesn't make logical sense how excluding White people from the class would somehow alleviate what is claimed to be the problem. In fact, it's a fallacy known as the appeal to probability: if white people are allowed to enroll in the class, this will exclude people of color who want to enroll.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 36% of Cornell’s 15,000-plus undergraduate students in the fall of 2019 were White. The second-largest racial group was Asians (20%), followed by Hispanic/Latino students (14%). Black or African-American students made up 7% of Cornell’s undergraduate population, behind “Race/ethnicity unknown” (8%) and “Non-resident alien” (11%).

This is racism and it's time for everyone to stand up against it.

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VT. governor opens covid vaccines for Black, Indigenous or persons of color

He already had his vaccine

Imagine what people would say if you read: "Vermont is opening up coronavirus vaccine eligibility for those people who identify as White." Obviously, you would be alarmed because that, not the voting changes in Georgia, is really Jim Crow on steroids, as Biden claimed of the latter.

But it's precisely the opposite in Vermont as the vaccine eligibility is for anyone over 16 who identifies as Black, Indigenous, or a person of color.

Republican Gov. Phil Scott, an embarrassment to the Party, tweeted about the move on Thursday. While other states correctly focused on the more vulnerable population  based on occupation, age or health status, this moron focused on melanin level and Native Americans.

And we elect these racists.

"If you or anyone in your household identifies as Black, Indigenous, or a person of color (BIPOC), including anyone with Abenaki or other First Nations heritage, all household members who are 16 years or older can sign up to get a vaccine!" Scott tweeted.

The state's website advertises "BIPOC household focused clinics" in Northern and Southern Vermont. For the Burlington area, the state offers a vaccination form that specifies eligibility is for BIPOC individuals and members of their household. The first question asks: "Do you identify as Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color (BIPOC)? This includes anyone who is non-white."

Putting people in racial categories for political gains is disgusting and hopefully this governor will have a primary challenger and be voted out of office. At the very least, a legal challenge should be issued by lawmakers as this has to be considered unconstitutional.

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