The bill does not state what would qualify as a "demonstrated record", so we can expect medical schools and the other entities to do whatever they think they can get away with to train as many "individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups" as they think they might need to have a better "demonstrated record" in this regard then other entities competing for the grants and contracts. The Democrats' health care bill creates a very significant financial incentive for medical schools and other entities to lower admission standards for "individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups" if that is what it takes to have the winning "demonstrated record".
On page 879-880, the bill states that the Secretary of Health and Human Services
"shall make grants to, or enter into contracts with, eligible entities . . . to operate a professional training program in the field of family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics, or geriatrics, to provide financial assistance and traineeships and fellowships to those students, interns, residents or physicians who plan to work in or teach in the field of family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics, or geriatrics."
On page 881-882 the bill states:
"In awarding grants or contracts under this section, the Secretary shall give preference to entities that have a demonstrated record of the following: . . . Training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups or disadvantaged backgrounds."
On page 883 the bill states:
"The Secretary shall make grants to, or enter into contracts with, eligible entities . . . to operate or participate in an established primary care residency training program, which may include-(A) planning and developing curricula; (B) recruitment and training of residents; and (C) retention of faculty."
On page 884-885 the bill states:
"In awarding grants and contracts . . . the Secretary shall give preference to entities that have a demonstrated record of training . . . individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups or disadvantaged backgrounds . . . ."
On page 887-889 the bill states that the
"Secretary shall make grants to, or enter into contracts with, eligible entities . . . to operate a professional training program for oral health professionals, to provide financial assistance and traineeships and fellowships to those professionals who plan to work in or teach general, pediatric, or public health dentistry, or dental hygiene, to establish, maintain, or improve academic administrative units (including departments, divisions, or other appropriate units) in the specialties of general, pediatric, or public health dentistry, to operate a loan repayment program for full-time faculty in a program of general, pediatric, or public health dentistry."
On page 889-890 the bill states:
"In awarding grants or contracts under this section, the Secretary shall give preference to entities that have a demonstrated record of the following: . . . Training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups or disadvantaged backgrounds."
On page 908-909 the bill states: "The Secretary shall award grants and contracts to eligible entities" to do the same things for the field of public health as the Secretary can do for dentistry.
On page 909 the bill states:
"In awarding grants or contracts under this section, the Secretary shall give preference to entities that have a demonstrated record of the following: . . . Training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups or disadvantaged backgrounds."
Apart from the legality of such preferences under the U.S. Constitution and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and the unfairness to those who are not "individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups", the Democrats' policy will foster the racial preference climate that continues to stigmatize and demean those individuals who receive the preferences. For example, if you know nothing else about two university students, except that one was probably admitted under a program where intellectual standards were reduced and the student received a preference for being the child of an alumnus, and the other was admitted under more rigorous intellectual standards without receiving any nonmerit-based preference, what are you going to think about these two students? Is the answer any different when the preference is based on race rather than an alumni relationship?
A nonmerit-based preference program based on an individual's physical appearance or surname is no less a "badge of inferiority" than the one condemned in Brown v. Board of Education. Thanks to the Democrats' racial preference program, all of the "individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups" at these medical schools and other entities, including those who deserved admission without the racial preference, will wear that badge.
Allan J. Favish is an attorney in Los Angeles. His website is allanfavish.com.
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How racial politics is destroying America.
by Ron Bass
Note: The Attorney General Eric Holder has said we are a nation of Cowards for failing to discuss race. I accept his challenge.
Extremism in the name of Civil Rights has been destroying America for the last 40 years.
Following are some concepts used by the civil rights movement to advance the position of minorities at the expense of our society.
Racial profiling, Racial preferences, Political correctness.
Here is a list of problems that have ensued as our elites of all colors and all political persuasions have implemented their idealistic civil rights concepts for America. These concepts have gone way beyond the basic concepts of individual civil rights.
Our schools system
The forced integration of our public school system, once the finest in the world, is now a system that has been dumbed down and no longer considered the best in the world.
Immigration
The US Civil Rights movement was extended to the world and has resulted in broken borders and the non-enforcement of our immigration laws. In effect we have immigration anarchy. All illegal aliens are now under the protection of the Civil Rights movement.
Marriage
The Civil Rights movement has now been extended the Gay & lesbian movement as they wage their attacks on those Americans who believe in the traditional age old concepts of marriage.
911
Once again the perverted concepts of the out of control Civil Rights movement reared it's very ugly head, when airport security was not allowed to profile the hijackers on the fateful morning of September 11th. In days gone by, profiling was considered good police work. The civil Rights movement allowed the personnel rights of foreign terrorists to prevail over the interest of all those law abiding citizens who perished on the 4 airplanes and the thousands who died a cruel death in the Twin Towers and at the pentagon, the supreme headquarters of our US military establishment. Good police work, at the risk of offending a few young Muslim jihad terrorist, would have saved the lives of thousands of our fellow citizens at the expense of inconveniencing a few. WE should not forget the politically correct lawyer in the FBI who did not allow Field FBI agents to examine Moussaoui, the 20th hijacker's hard drive for fear of offending him and violating his "alleged civil rights"
Sub Prime Mortgages
Another perversion of the civil rights movement which attempted to make housing more affordable to folks who couldn't afford to buy a house. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac forced banks to extend loans to those who could not afford them. As a result, the packaging of these sub-prime mortgages contributed to the economic crash that we are now in.
National Health Care
The perverted ideologies of the Civil Rights movement in the proposed healthcare bill as explain in the previous article. if implemented, will represent the integration of our national healthcare system.
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I
can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will
not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do,
I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God,
I will do." ~ Edward Everett Hale
