Thanks to @CodyGathersMD I just spent the last hour + reading an anti- affirmative action article (that was written by an Asian male doctor) and published in the Journal of the American Heart Association... his premise was:
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/JAHA.120.015959?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed&

1. Yeah slavery happened to Black folks but after 50 years of DEI initiatives, blk ppl are still underrepresented because there’s just not enough qualified applicants

2. Allowing unqualified black People into med schools is actually really bad for them because they have to deal with feeling not good enough and then they actually under-perform and reinforce the stigma of not being good enough

3. And Here’s the big one: Asians are actually most negatively harmed by affirmative action policies and it’s not fair to them that unqualified black candidates are getting to use “minority status” as an advantage when Asians can’t

I listened to a @reveal podcast 2 years ago where they interviewed an anti- AA lawyer who proudly talked about their new strategy of using Asian plaintiffs in their cases to roll back AA policies and here we are and they are moving right ahead https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/al-letson-reveals-the-fight-to-end-affirmative-action-in-higher-education/

Without a real historical context, these arguments seem sound and reasonable. But if you know that after slavery came black codes, convict leasing, Jim Crow, intentional underfunding education from K- Higher ed...

the Flexner Report of 1910 that closed 5 of the 7 HBCU med schools and all but erased the number of black doctors in communities and spread distrust about their capabilities (The white man’s ice became colder)
https://ejournals.library.vanderbilt.edu/index.php/vurj/article/download/4063/2103

Let’s add on how 1930s New Deal legislation and the GI Bill of 1944 are responsible for 60,000+ doctors... at a time where black vets did not have equal access to this opportunity strictly because of their race (Screenshots from book “When Affirmative Action was White)

Then we have to mention mass incarceration, the impacts of standardized testing (which is a pseudoscience that originated from the eugenics movement and was DESIGNED to prove that whites were superior to non-whites)
(Book reference: Stamped from the Beginning by @DrIbram)

And top it off with a War on a Drugs that simultaneously gutted social welfare and mental health resources, continued housing segregation which led to poor tax bases... which creates under-funded schools with an over-representation of poor and blk/ brown folks in them and...

I think now we can just begin to scratch the surface on understanding why affirmative action for black and brown folks is a BARE minimum. White folks have been the recipients of affirmative action since the first legislations were drafted on this stolen land.

Yet, we don’t think about the 250+ years that white folks had EXCLUSIVE access to power, resources and opportunities based solely on the color of their skin. We don’t think about how they have also propped up different groups throughout history in order to justify their advantage

And continue to harm black People specifically. We are witnessing people from Asian communities aligning with white supremacist ideology with the hopes that it help them achieve acceptance and fairness from white elites... history has shown over and over again how silly this is.

I could go on and on but I need to go to sleep before I throw off the sleep schedule I’ve intentionally developed in the midst of this pandemic.

To Dr. Wang, the article’s sole author (which is quite interesting in and of itself): Next time, at least say it with ya chest. Your abstract does NOT mention the conclusion of your paper which was a call for ending Affirmative Action for med schools by 2028.

Like forreal, how does someone leave out the ENTIRE POINT of their 17 page article from their abstract?! I’m also curious to know if this was peer- reviewed at all before it was published in such a prominent Journal...

@reveal @prx @voxdotcom Can someone do some investigation into if there are similar articles and court cases popping up related to Anti- Affirmative Action using Asian plaintiffs/ authors Something feels fishy here (read: white supremacy systems reinventing themselves again)

@JAHA_AHA @norman_c_wang