The Arkansas Minority Health Commission has been sued for offering a scholarship that excludes white applicants . These scholarships are 'not based on academic achievements, but rather on skin color,' DNH chair Dr. Stanley Goldfarb said.
, an applicant"must represent a racial minority population underrepresented in health workforce ," according to the guidelines."These scholarships are designed to recruit individuals into medicine, not based on academic achievements, but rather on skin color," DNH chair Dr. Stanley Goldfarb told the."The rationale behind all this is that racial concordance between patients and physicians improves healthcare outcomes for black patients.
The stated purpose of the scholarship is to"help increase diversity in the state's healthcare workforce." “This scholarship clearly violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution," Goldfarb said in a press release about the lawsuit. “The Arkansas Minority Health Commission is illegally excluding and discriminating against certain medical students and denying them opportunities based on their race, color, or national origin — the scholarship should be declared unconstitutional and promptly enjoined.
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