{"id":1916529,"date":"2023-04-19T03:26:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T07:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-carolinians-deserve-good-doctors-not-woke-political-activists\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T03:27:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T07:27:12","slug":"north-carolinians-deserve-good-doctors-not-woke-political-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-carolinians-deserve-good-doctors-not-woke-political-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolinians Deserve Good Doctors, Not Woke Political Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnorth-carolinians-deserve-good-doctors-not-woke-political-activists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1916529&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recently, The University of North Carolina has come under scrutiny for the radical diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives being pushed in its School of Medicine. Disturbed by the blatant racism and political activism coming from the medical school, North Carolinians have begun asking questions. In response to these questions, Wesley Burks, the dean of the School of Medicine, has been essentially telling inquirers their fears are unfounded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But a public records request has revealed that Dean Burks gets all of his DEI talking points from the UNC School of Medicine\u2019s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The DEI officers coached Dean Burks on how to respond to the backlash and criticism caused by the UNC DEI task force\u2019s recommendations for implementing social justice into the curriculum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the talking points that the DEI office gave the dean are dishonest. The UNC School of Medicine\u2019s own internal documents and diversity initiatives refute them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">First, the talking points try to shift responsibility and downplay the number and importance of the recommendations outlined in the report. They state, \u201cMost recommendations were created as a response to concerns highlighted by our accreditation agency, the LCME \u2026 others were modified following their original posting or not adopted\u2026\u201d They don\u2019t specify which goals were merely created at the behest of the LCME, nor which recommendations they chose not to adopt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moreover, the UNC School of Medicine DEI office\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/strategicplan\/strategy\/diversity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> demonstrates that, even if certain recommendations from the report were scrapped or consolidated, the overarching themes of the report are still alive and being actively pursued by the school. The website lists three priorities: (1) \u201crecruit and retain diverse faculty, staff, and learners\u201d; (2) \u201cCultivate an environment that promotes a more inclusive culture\u201d; (3) \u201cStrengthen institutional infrastructure and systems to support diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These goals are all worded with pretty language that makes them sound like noble objectives that anyone would support, but they are just vague rewordings of the same social justice priorities outlined in the task force\u2019s report. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For example, one goal of the task force report is: \u201cThe work of the admissions committee should be guided by the UNC School of Medicine\u2019s education and patient care missions to recruit students from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce\u2026\u201d One need only look at UNC\u2019s discriminatory admissions practices to see that they are very much still working toward this aim in the worst possible way. UNC uses a so-called <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/foxnews.com\/media\/unc-chapel-hill-defends-race-based-admissions-amid-supreme-court-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">holistic admissions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> approach that factors race into admissions decisions. This approach unfairly disadvantages Asian and white applicants and, because of this violation of civil rights, has landed UNC in a Supreme Court case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And it doesn\u2019t even stop there. UNC\u2019s Department of Neurosurgery is offering a summer research <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/med.miami.edu\/departments\/neurosurgery\/summer-research-scholarship-in-neurosurgery-for-black-medical-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">fellowship<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> open only to black medical students. The blurb for the fellowship openly declares: \u201cThe purpose of the award is to provide a neurosurgical-based research fellowship for black students \u2026 who wish to gain research experience in the fields of neuroscience and neurosurgery, and have early exposure to the field of neurosurgery.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The UNC School of Medicine also <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11711351\/Group-advocating-race-blind-America-demands-UNC-medical-school-stop-integrating-social-justice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">subjects<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> its faculty to mandatory implicit bias training.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So Dean Burks and the diversity office can\u2019t claim that their diversity goals are \u201cno big deal.\u201d The university has devoted itself to the cause of DEI \u2014 and all that entails \u2014 enough to force woke ideology down its faculty\u2019s throat, enough to openly discriminate against Asians in favor of blacks and end up in court.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The talking points claim that negative reporting on the school\u2019s DEI initiatives \u201cmisrepresents and sensationalizes our great work at the UNC School of Medicine.\u201d But that is simply not accurate. If you look at The College Fix <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/unc-med-school-moves-ahead-with-plans-to-root-instruction-in-dei-teach-organs-arent-gender-specific\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that these talking points reference specifically, that article sensationalizes nothing. The author of the article merely quotes excerpts of the SOM\u2019s own report. The author does not embellish or add any objectives that the social justice task force itself did not create.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Also of note, the DEI office\u2019s talking points assert in the very next sentence: \u201cWe have prioritized and are proud of our work in DEI.\u201d If Dean Burks and UNC leadership are so proud of their DEI work, why would they need to rush to deny the validity of statements found in their own DEI report? If they are proud of their work, why not just honestly own and defend all the details of their DEI priorities? If you believe your work is admirable and there is nothing insidious in it, why try to downplay or deny certain aspects of it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The talking points claim that the UNC School of Medicine\u2019s DEI work \u201chas no political agenda.\u201d This is a flat-out lie. A presentation slide from the UNC SOM Health Equity Speaker series explicitly credits Critical Race Theory as the foundation on which UNC\u2019s DEI work is based. And Critical Race Theory is political, no matter how much UNC\u2019s DEI executives deny it. The Health Equity presentation slide states that Critical Race Theory \u201crecognizes that racism is ingrained in the fabric and system of the American society\u201d and \u201cidentifies that these structures are based on white privilege and white supremacy, which perpetuates the marginalization of people of color.\u201d CRT\u2019s claims are political claims. So once again, the talking points mislead and obscure the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The UNC School of Medicine is actively pursuing a destructive DEI agenda, and the school\u2019s leaders don\u2019t even have the decency to be honest about their agenda. That is why Color Us United has created a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/colorusunited.org\/unc-petition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">petition<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> urging Dean Burks to abandon this poisonous ideology and realign the school\u2019s focus to what should matter most \u2014 excellence in health care. North Carolinians deserve good doctors, not political activists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Emmie Lo is a writer and Latin teacher currently living in Jacksonville, Florida. You can read her personal blog at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blindgirldreaming.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blindgirldreaming.blogspot.com<\/a>\u00a0and follow her on Twitter at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Teabooksgirl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@teabooksgirl<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, The University of North Carolina has come under scrutiny for the radical diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives being pushed in its School of Medicine. Disturbed by the blatant racism and political activism coming from the medical school, North Carolinians have begun asking questions. 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