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“I’d call it class-based affirmative action. Class struggles have a huge overlap with race — that’s how we skirted the issue,” Henderson reportedly said, according to the department’s findings.
Well, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon has a message for Dr. Henderson et al: You can’t do that, and we won’t let you continue to do that.
“Based on our review, the Department has found that Davis Med is violating Title VI by discriminating on the basis of race in its admissions process,” she wrote. “The Department finds that Davis Med discriminated against white and Asian applicants to Davis Med on the basis of race.”
She went on to say that the DOJ will pursue voluntary compliance actions, but if that doesn’t work, she’s prepared to drop the legal hammer on UC-Davis.
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