Chicago Pastor and Project H.O.O.D. founder Corey Brooks takes on the practice of DEI admissions at UCLA's Medical School.

The recent race controversy at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine reminded me once again of one of the more devastating and pressing issues facing Black people: inferiority.

What struck me the most about this controversy scandal was how the school was accused of sacrificing meritocracy at the altar of diversity to admit an unqualified Black prospect.

UCLA has denied the claim that they have discriminated on the basis of race and have pushed back against this uproar. However, their own dean of the medical school runs a minorities-only fellowship which violates the California law that prohibits public institutions from using race as a consideration in any matter.

Still, the accusations surprised me in many ways. First, we’re not talking about the humanities or the political sciences, where mistakes can easily be swept under the rug, but about a medical school whose sole mission is to create the future wave of doctors capable of saving lives.

Whether these allegations are truthful or not, the question is how did we get here? Are Black Americans really so inferior that some institutions might consider bending over this far to accommodate our supposed inferiority?

Under slavery and segregation, we were told by........

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