Quota beneficiary from Bakke case recently died. Know why the media's silent?

Chavis (who died this week) was a black physician admitted to the University of California-Davis medical school under a special racial-preference quota. In 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court later struck down the program after a landmark challenge by white applicant Allan Bakke (who had higher scores). After the media subsequently praised Chavis's medical career in comparison to Bakke's, Sen. Ted Kennedy called Chavis "a perfect example" of the need for lowering admissions standards in the name of racial diversity. What the New York Times (etcetera) never got around to reporting, though, is that the widely praised "difference" Chavis made in the lives of several young black women involved gruesome pain-and death-as a result of botched "body sculpting" operations at his clinic. An administrative law judge found Chavis guilty of gross negligence and incompetence in the treatment of three patients, and that notoriously callous doctor eventually lost his license. Had Bakke done the same, though, would the media have EVER let quota opponents live it down?

Well, I also think FreeRepublic.com is great at letting independent websites know which of their publications generate the most buzz. Other webmasters' servers enable them to visit the Freep forums from which Freepers clicked on to their articles. Webmasters can subsequently read the Freepers' feedback, and that conceivably influences which authors they subsequently publish. Not always, but at least some of the time. When we post an article in its entirety, this doesn't happen nearly as much. Folks like Michelle Malkin need all the support they can get in the liberal media. If log reports show that her articles are heavily read, that empowers relatively conservative editors in the liberal press outlets to keep including her work in future publications.

Binyamin L. Jolkovsky, the editor of Jewish World Review, has come on FR two or so years ago. He's a very well-spoken guy and a friend to FR. JWR was in a financial crunch and he asked that Freepers would only do short excerpts and then link to JWR, because they needed the hits to generate ad revenue. His request was quite reasonable, and it's a great thing to see his site still going on strong.

Admin, do you know if Mr. Jolkovsky's old request is still in effect?

Chavin did kill a patient. Here's a clip from an article.

Tammaria Cotton

Tammaria Cotton, a 43-year-old municipal court clerk from Los Angeles, suffered massive blood loss and died of cardiac arrest June 22, 1996, hours after obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Patrick Chavis removed fat from her stomach, bottom and thighs.
At one point, he left her to recover at his Lynwood office with only a nurse and a worried husband nearby.
At the state board's request, a judge on June 19 temporarily suspended Dr. Chavis' license pending a disciplinary hearing. Dr. Chavis' attorney, Robert D. Walker, contends the state's case is based on incomplete records.
On its face, tumescent liposuction is simple: a doctor injects a combination of saline solution, a local anesthetic like lidocaine, and epinephrine to reduce bleeding, until the area becomes taut. Then, the surgeon makes a small incision and inserts a tubelike device called a cannula to suction out fat.
The procedure seemed so routine to Mrs. Cotton, who'd heard about it from her beautician and church friends, that she didn't even tell her husband until the night before her surgery.

Jimmy Cotton

"It was just liposuction!" cried Jimmy Cotton, a police officer, as his wife died in a hospital emergency room.
No organizations track such incidents. But Dr. Richard Ruffalo, past chairman of the department of anesthesia at Hoag Memorial Hospital in Newport Beach, says "For every case in which a death occurs, there's at least 15 to 20 cases where severe injury has occurred."
Dr. Frederick M. Grazer, a Newport Beach plastic surgeon, says money is the root problem, especially as doctors' fees are limited by managed care.
"Many doctors who were never interested in plastic surgery ... take a weekend course and become interested in things they can bill upfront without insurance," Dr. Grazer said. "They have increased the envelop to see how much they can inject in a patient and how much they can take without killing them."

Source

I tried in vain to find a pic of "Dr". Chavis, to no avail.

I think it is a case to calculate what is good for black America. What about just doing what is right...because it is right. Racial preferences are evil and should be repudiated just because they are evil.

If we are to have a hope of turning this around, there is something we can do immediately, namely work to defeat Mary Landrieu.

See on related:

If the conservative agenda is to have a chance of succeeding and if conservative judges are to gain Senate approval, we must preserve a Republican Senate--which is in greater jeopardy than many realize.

For those who understand why the Louisiana election is crucial to retaining the Senate in the face of possible Republican defections by Chafee and McCain, please see the article just posted on:

"How Suzanne Terrell can Defeat Mary Landrieu"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/791117/posts

The link provided to the COMPLETE NBC TRANSCRIPT is incorrect, and should be:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/836275.asp

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