Interviewing Elon Musk this week, former CNN host Don Lemon demonstrated the real-life consequences of affirmative action.
Interestingly enough, Lemon himself is an affirmative action beneficiary who miraculously hung on at CNN despite committing one moronic
Responding to Musk’s claim that the “probability that someone will die I think at some point is high,” Lemon said, “but that’s a hypothetical that doesn’t mean it’s happening.”
In fact, it already has happened, countless times, all over the country — but notoriously, to the most famous affirmative action doctor of all: the black applicant who took Allan Bakke’s place at the medical school of the University of California at Davis. Here was an incompetent black doctor whose medical errors couldn’t be brushed under the rug, though affirmative action proponents did their best.
Dr. Patrick Chavis openly admitted that he never would have gotten into medical school without UC Davis’ affirmative action program. Sen. Teddy Kennedy, The New York Times and the Nation magazine all touted Chavis as an affirmative action success story! Unlike Bakke, who went to work at the Mayo Clinic, Chavis was serving a disadvantaged community and “making a difference in the lives of scores of poor families,” as Sen. Kennedy said.
Yes, he was making a difference in his patients’ lives, mostly by shortening them. Dr. Chavis’ liposuction surgery left one patient bleeding, vomiting and urinating uncontrollably. But instead of taking her to a hospital, he let her bleed in his home for another 40 hours. By the time she managed to escape and check herself into a hospital, she’d lost 70% of her blood. (To be fair, she looked amazing when bikini season rolled around!)
Miraculously, she lived, as did most of his other liposuction patients who ended up in the emergency room. One, Tammaria Cotton, did not.
But the affirmative action cover-up can never end: It took the California medical board a year to suspend Dr. Chavis’ license, with patient advocates screaming bloody murder at such a pathetically slow response.
You think Bakke could have killed a patient to so little fanfare?
The New York Times took no notice of the affirmative action doctor’s grisly liposuctions, except a brief notation in his obituary years later, after he was gunned down in an attempted carjacking. In paragraph 7, the Times extravagantly described Chavis’ medical malpractice thus: “He was accused of mistreating eight liposuction patients, one of whom died.”
Or, as Lemon repeated on autoplay: “There’s no actual evidence of what you’re saying.”
Then there was Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital in South Central Los Angeles — or “Killer King,” as the locals dubbed it. A “symbol of justice and political power to many black people,” the Los Angeles Times reported in a Pulitzer Prize-winning story, “the majority of its staff has always been black.”
“Entire departments,” the Times investigation found, “are riddled with incompetence, internal strife and, in some cases, criminality. Employees have pilfered and sometimes sold the hospital’s drugs; chronic absenteeism is rampant; assaults between hospital workers are not uncommon.”
Despite having “abnormally high salaries for ranking doctors,” Killer King paid out “more per patient for medical malpractice” than any of the state’s 23 other public hospitals or medical centers.
So there’s loads of “evidence” that affirmative action kills, despite the best efforts of our universities, medical system and media to hide it. Of course, if you mention the evidence, you’ll be called a “white supremacist.”
See? No evidence.