For once, Kamala Harris didn’t misspeak.
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Harris → misspeak → ?
The former vice-president-turned-failed-presidential-candidate recently appeared with Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul el Sayed.
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president → turn → Sayed
She vigorously defended the divisive and discriminatory ideology of “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” saying that the “attack on DEI is an attack on maternal care,” and especially “black women.”
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attack → defend → care
These words betray two things that ought to worry every American.
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that → betray → American
First, the Left is still completely obsessed with DEI and will bring it back as soon as possible.
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Left → obsess → it
Second, that obsession is grounded in falsehoods that endanger Americans.
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that → ground → Americans
Since President Donald Trump beat Harris in the 2024 election, DEI has been on the defensive.
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DEI → beat → defensive
Federal DEI initiatives have largely disappeared, as the spigot of taxpayer funding has dried up.
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spigot → disappear → funding
Major companies have outwardly rolled back DEI commitments and scrubbed their websites of the language.
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companies → roll → language
And in higher education, a growing number of schools are dismantling their DEI departments.
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number → grow → departments
But make no mistake: DEI activists are just biding their time.
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activists → make → time
At medical schools, for instance, many DEI offices have simply been renamed.
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offices → rename → instance
Their staff has been given different titles for the same work.
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staff → give → work
Overall, 55% of medical schools still have DEI offices, committees, or staff.
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% → have → offices
They’re waiting for the chance to fly the DEI flag once again.
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They → wait → flag
In other words, they’re waiting for the left to regain power in Washington, D.C., whether it’s President Kamala Harris or someone else.
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it → wait → Washington
Yet, if and when DEI roars back, it will still be divisive, discriminatory, and dead wrong to boot.
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it → roar → ?
For years, DEI’s defenders have said that it’s uniquely necessary for maternal health.
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it → say → health
Specifically, it’s essential for saving black mothers from dying during childbirth.
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it → ’ → childbirth
Sadly, black mothers do have a higher maternal mortality rate than mothers of other races, and as the failed argument goes, the best way to save their lives is to ensure they’re seen by black doctors.
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they → have → doctors
Ergo, we need DEI programs to ensure that medical schools admit and graduate black doctors, from affirmative action to lower (or no) grading standards.
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schools → need → standards
Never mind that lower-quality physicians provide worse care to patients, regardless of race.
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physicians → mind → race
The appeal to emotion is powerful, and as a society, saving mothers’ lives is a moral and medical imperative.
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saving → save → lives
But DEI won’t do it.
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DEI → do → it
The basic assumption of medical DEI is that patients do best when they’re matched with doctors of the same race, a concept known as “racial concordance” that’s really tantamount to racial segregation.
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that → do → segregation
Yet, my colleagues at Do No Harm have analyzed the studies on this issue, and their findings are unmistakable: Matching patients and doctors by race doesn’t improve health outcomes.
In other words, the DEI crowd is completely wrong.
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crowd → analyze → words
Black mothers don’t need black doctors.
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mothers → need → doctors
They need the best doctors, regardless of race.
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They → need → race
The facts all point in this direction.
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facts → point → direction
When DEI activists say black mothers need black doctors, they’re really saying that other doctors are biased or racist, so they provide worse care.
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they → say → care
Yet maternal mortality is extremely complicated and defies such a simplistic explanation, as the medical research makes clear.
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research → defy → explanation
Vital records also show that many of the leading causes of black maternal mortality are largely preventable or manageable medical conditions.
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many → show → mortality
Unfortunately, pregnant black women tend to seek medical care less often and later in pregnancy relative to white women, so their conditions tend to be more advanced and harder to treat.
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conditions → tend → women
They are also less likely to attend postpartum visits, which are very important for addressing complications after delivery.
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which → attend → delivery
The solution is to help them get earlier care and more care, regardless of the doctor’s skin color.
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them → help → color
As a country, we should do everything in our power to help pregnant mothers get the care they need.
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they → do → care
We should do our best to help black mothers.
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We → do → mothers
But we don’t need DEI to do that.
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DEI → need → that
We don’t need to lower standards for medical school.
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We → need → school
We don’t need to pick doctors based on race.
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We → need → race
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