LAL #033 — Race-Based Preferences and Killing White Folk; Huh?

Law and Legitimacy

This was an odd week on the frontiers of the emerging racial divisions in the United States.

From the federal appellate courts, good news — the 6th Circuit struct down a federal program giving preferential access to federal coronavirus relief funds on the basis of race and gender.

From Yale University, troubling news — it took the university months to finally distance itself from the remarks of a visiting psychiatrist who told fellow professionals she fantasizes about happily shooting white folks in the head. In the case of Antonio Vitolo; Jake’s Bar and Grill, LLC. v. Isabella Casillas Guzman, a 2-1 panel decision wrote: “This case is about whether the government can allocate limited coronavirus relief funds bases on the race and sex of applicants. We hold it cannot.” At issue was relief targeted at restaurant owners. Members of favored races and gender were given preferential access to funds. Jake’s Bar and Grill challenged that, fearing the funds would be gone by the time its application was considered. The circuit court froze distribution of the funds pending further litigation. The dissent argues that affirmative action is lawful, and this program is a necessary means of redressing historic injustice. Expect this case, or a case like it, to reach the Supreme Court next year. In the Yale case, a psychiatrist named Dr. Aruna Khilanani from New York City was invited to address grand rounds the Yale Child Study Center in April. Grand Rounds are clinical presentations designed and intended to foster discussion among specialists about topics they will confront in their practice. The title of the talk says it all: “Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind.” In her talk, the doctor talked about how useless it was to talk to white people about race, and about how she fantasized about shooting them in the head and happily walking away with but nominal guilt. Only this week did Yale seek to distance itself from this incendiary gibberish. As for Dr. Khilanani, she now claims it was mere hyperbole, uttered for dramatic effect. Seriously?

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