Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - The American Medical Association Goes Insane
Aired: 2021-06-25
Duration: 09:41


=== AMA's Equity Scandal (07:43) ===

[00:00:03]  Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance.
[00:00:07]  A lot of people don't want anyone watching my videos, so if you like this one, I hope you'll send a link to a lot of your friends.
[00:00:12]  The American Medical Association is the biggest, oldest, and most influential doctors' association in the country.
[00:00:20]  It was founded 174 years ago, has an annual budget of $300 million and over 1,000 employees.
[00:00:28]  And it has just gone certifiably insane.
[00:00:32]  When it comes to training doctors, it wants to throw out the malignant narrative of merit and hard work and select people on the basis of intersectional oppression instead.
[00:00:44]  It also wants to turn the country upside down to fight racism and bring about health equity.
[00:00:50]  Here's its brand new strategic plan to embed racial justice and advance health equity.
[00:00:58]  And it's not joking about equity.
[00:01:00]  In 86 pages, it uses the word 454 times.
[00:01:05]  On the cover are ideal doctors of the future.
[00:01:09]  Ten are women, four are men, and one I would call indeterminate.
[00:01:14]  The guy I want for my doctor is the one in a turban.
[00:01:18]  The strategic plan opens with an incoherent call to worship.
[00:01:24]  We acknowledge that we are all living off the taken ancestral lands of indigenous peoples for thousands of years.
[00:01:32]  We acknowledge the extraction of brilliance, energy, and life for labor forced upon people of African descent for more than 400 years.
[00:01:43]  The first blacks showed up here in 1619, so if slavery lasted more than 400 years, they'd still be slaves.
[00:01:51]  On the same page, the strategic plan says doctors must have the consciousness, tools, and resources to confront inequalities and dismantle white supremacy, racism, and other forms of exclusion.
[00:02:06]  Doctors are also supposed to fight poverty, lack of good jobs and good housing, and perceived powerlessness.
[00:02:13]  They're going to be busy, aren't they?
[00:02:15]  But it's all in the name of equity.
[00:02:18]  So what is that?
[00:02:21]  Where equality is a blunt instrument of sameness, equity is a precise scalpel that requires a deep understanding of complex dynamics and systems.
[00:02:33]  Treating people equally is a blunt instrument.
[00:02:36]  It's so 1960s.
[00:02:39]  But equity is a precise scalpel for treating people differently.
[00:02:44]  So who are the people with a deep understanding of complex dynamics?
[00:02:48]  Who know how to cut one way but not another with that precise scalpel?
[00:02:54]  Surely, one would be the AMA's very own Chief Health Equity Officer, Aletha Maybank, whose staff wrote the report.
[00:03:03]  She was appointed in 2019, and here she is in Essence magazine bragging about a historic day for black women, a historic day for the AMA.
[00:03:14]  So what's guiding those scalpel cuts?
[00:03:17]  The report says it's all about the marginalized and the minoritized.
[00:03:23]  And who are they?
[00:03:24]  Black, indigenous, Latinx, Asian, other people of color, women, LGBTQ+.
[00:03:30]  Who's missing?
[00:03:33]  It would be so much simpler if the report just said, straight honkies cause all our problems.
[00:03:39]  So, what does Aletha want the world of medicine to look like?
[00:03:43]  Back to page 12, where we learned that equality is passé.
[00:03:49]  The strategic plan itself highlights in blue the words of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg.
[00:03:56]  People ask me sometimes, when do you think it will be enough?
[00:04:00]  When will there be enough women on the court?
[00:04:02]  And my answer is, when there are nine.
[00:04:05]  In other words, when they're all women.
[00:04:07]  So, when will there be enough marginalized and minoritized doctors?
[00:04:13]  Is Aletha telling us it'll be when there's not one heterosexual white man left?
[00:04:18]  To get at that point, we're going to have to get rid of standards for doctors, but Aletha's ready for that.
[00:04:23]  Back to page 12, where she writes, So we will choose doctors on the basis of equity,
[00:04:41]  not competence.
[00:04:43]  The strategic plan rabbits on about It includes nifty graphs of the waxing and waning of structural violence,
[00:05:04]  whatever that is, against blacks and Indians.
[00:05:07]  Stop the video and take a look.
[00:05:09]  There are identical sine waves of structural violence for LGBTQ +, Asians, and Hispanics.
[00:05:17]  The strategic plan agonizes over AMA's own deep racism and promises to quantify impacts of AMA's policy and process decisions that excluded, discriminated, and harmed,
[00:05:33]  and launch a multi-year restorative justice initiative.
[00:05:38]  Quantify the evil?
[00:05:40]  I imagine the unit of measure will be U.S. dollars.
[00:05:44]  This is restorative justice, after all.
[00:05:46]  And here's Aletha herself talking about this, interviewed by the AMA's Chief Experience Officer, whatever that is.
[00:05:55]  You know, what do we do with that?
[00:05:57]  How do we really understand fully the costs of that harm, both quantitatively and qualitatively?
[00:06:04]  And then what do we do to repair that?
[00:06:06]  What awful things did the AMA do?
[00:06:09]  Somebody went back through 147 years worth of papers and proceedings and found the very worst.
[00:06:15]  They are in Appendix 9, AMA's historical harms.
[00:06:20]  Harms, plural.
[00:06:22]  Here are all four harms in the general category.
[00:06:27]  171 years ago, the AMA published a paper on the cranial capacity of skulls of different racial and ethnic groups.
[00:06:33]  Unlike what this says, it never mentioned.
[00:06:36]  Phenology. What will that be worth in restorative justice?
[00:06:39]  Half a million?
[00:06:41]  The second, HARM, is a 161-year-old paper that can be described as proto-eugenic.
[00:06:48]  The third is a 1907 report on improving public health in Panama so people digging the canal won't get sick.
[00:06:57]  And the last one from 1930 was a debate over whether it was fair to let European doctors immigrate if American doctors couldn't practice in Europe.
[00:07:06]  Pretty awful stuff, isn't it?
[00:07:08]  So how much will the AMA have to pay?
[00:07:12]  Well, I'm sure we'll find out.
[00:07:14]  As you can see, Aletha has all these people working for.
[00:07:18]  Nine of them have the word manager or director in their title, so they probably have staff under them too.
[00:07:24]  This is not just a colossal waste of time and money.
[00:07:28]  It means incompetent doctors who will kill people.
[00:07:31]  Because, despite all this newfangled idiotic jabber about structural violence and racial capitalism, the fundamental insanity in this strategic plan is new.

=== Affirmative Action Success Story (02:09) ===

[00:07:44]  Some of you old-timers remember Patrick Chavis.
[00:07:47]  He went to UC Davis Medical School in 1973 under a special program to let in blacks who had low grades and test scores.
[00:07:55]  It was equity before its time.
[00:07:58]  A white applicant who was rejected, Alan Backey, who had much better scores and grades, sued, claiming racial discrimination.
[00:08:06]  The case went to the Supreme Court, which ruled that racial preferences were legal.
[00:08:11]  Chavis became a doctor.
[00:08:13]  And was touted as a great success for affirmative action on TV, in The Nation, and in a cover story in the New York Times Magazine in 1995.
[00:08:23]  The next year, Senator Ted Kennedy called him the perfect example of how affirmative action is supposed to work.
[00:08:31]  Well, the year after that, the state of California suspended his medical license, saying he had an inability to perform some of the most basic duties required of a physician.
[00:08:42]  He had been sued 21 times for malpractice.
[00:08:47]  After he bungled an operation on Yolanda Makalyan, he hid her in his house for 40 hours where she lost 70% of her blood.
[00:08:57]  Miraculously, she survived.
[00:08:59]  He used his precise scalpel on Tamaria cotton and then left her to bleed to death.
[00:09:07]  They were black women, intersectional victims of systemic racism, but then
[00:09:12]  As now, black lives didn't matter unless there was a white man to blame.
[00:09:17]  Patrick Chavis never accepted responsibility and he always shouted about racism.
[00:09:24]  Nineteen years ago, he was shot to death, age 50, near Los Angeles.
[00:09:29]  Robbery? Carjacking?
[00:09:31]  An angry former patient?
[00:09:33]  No one seems to know.
[00:09:35]  I wonder if our friend Aletha has ever heard of Patrick Chavis.
[00:09:40]  It would serve her right.