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In a mandatory course on “structural racism” for first-year medical students at the University of California Los Angeles, a guest speaker who has praised Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel led students in chants of “Free, Free Palestine” and demanded that they bow down to “mama earth”.
Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia began the March 27 class by leading students in what she described as a “non-secular prayer” to “the ancestors”, instructing everyone to get on their knees and touch the floor—“mama earth” as she described it—with their fists.
At least half of the assembled students complied.
The prayer also included a benediction for “black,” “brown,” and “houseless people” who die because of the “crapatalist lie” of “private property”.
So began a long and looney lecture that shocked some students at the elite medical school and has led to calls for an investigation. Wearing a keffiyeh that covered her entire face, Gray-Garcia, a self-described “poverty scholar”, led the class in chants of “Free, Free Palestine” as faculty and staff looked on in silence.
One of the onlookers was Lindsay Wells, a pediatrician at UCLA and the director of the mandatory first-year course Structural Racism and Health Equity, who did not respond to a request for comment.
Gray-Garcia later referred to modern medicine as “white science” and inveighed against the “occupation” of “Turtle Island”—that is, the United States—before asking students to stand for a second prayer. This time, nearly everyone rose.
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