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The recent racial controversy at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) reminded me once again of one of the most serious and pressing problems facing black people: feelings of inferiority.
What struck me most about this controversy scandal was that universities were accused of sacrificing meritocracy in favor of diversity in order to admit promising, underqualified black students.
UCLA has disputed the allegations, denying that it discriminated on the basis of race, but the dean of its medical school runs a fellowship exclusively for minorities, in violation of California law that bars public institutions from considering race in any matter.
Still, this accusation surprised me on several levels: First, we are not talking about the humanities or political sciences, where mistakes can easily be swept under the rug, but about a medical school whose sole mission is to prepare future physicians capable of saving lives.
Whether or not these allegations are true, the question is, how did we get to this point? Are black Americans truly inferior, to the point that some institutions are considering giving in? this To what extent are we willing to accept our supposed inferiority?
Under slavery and segregation, we were taught by white people and the laws of the land that our inferiority, our subhumanity, was the reason for our bondage. Since the 1960s, many of us have actively embraced our newfound freedom to prove that the color of our skin does not limit our capabilities. But that terrible inferiority complex continues to hang over us, mainly due to left-wing policies and their dominant attitudes.
The debate today is that too many educators The ideology of DEI In some cases, skin color is the only thing that matters. It’s quite disturbing that even medical schools are said to prioritize race over skill.
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Perhaps the most egregious thing about this whole thing is that it degrades truly talented black students. I know there are amazing black students at that school who are well qualified to be where they are. I see these talented students every day in my poor South Side neighborhood. One of my instructors grew up in the apartment complex next to my church and is now training at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Is it fair for these brilliant black students to be branded as inferior?
Will they be viewed through a DEI lens that values skin color above all else? Will their contributions be called into question after this controversy, even if the university claims that this is not the case? Will the question always remain?
Black author and critic Shelby Steele once wrote, “When people argue for diversity and therefore for racial preferential treatment, black students are, in effect, sambo-ized. They are given an intractable sense of inferiority that even good schools and high-income families cannot overcome.”
The sin of DEI officials across the country is to so severely discriminate against and equate with criminalizing Black people, who not only have to study late into the night to get into these highly regarded programs, but who, like Sisyphus, must prove themselves again and again to this stigma of inferiority.
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And it was all because someone wanted a certain skin color on campus or at a company. If this isn’t racism, I don’t know what is.
Sadly, there is another side to this inferiority complex that affects my neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. To be born in my neighborhood is to be born into a world of inferiority created by a succession of liberal policies that have been implemented since the 1960s. When I look at a newborn baby, I can’t help but think that he or she will grow up conditioned by dependency policies, policies created by people who don’t believe that child has the ability to succeed in life.
What they never give this child is a way out of inferiority — a quality education, an emphasis on two-parent families, teaching him the values of hard work, discipline, perseverance, responsibility, and accountability. Instead, they allow this child to slog through life with no demands, and then, when he does have dreams, they rely on racial favoritism to make up for his inferiority complex.
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That is why I strongly believe that inferiority complex is one of the biggest problems facing black Americans. The only way members of my community can overcome this inferiority complex is to reject it wholeheartedly. When our people marched for their rights in the 1960s, they claimed that they were no different from other races and were just as capable.
Now is the time to sink or swim and stand on our own two feet.
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