UCLA Medical School’s ‘Structural Racism’ Class Featured ‘Quite Disturbing’ Prayer to Pagan God: Witness

A mandatory “structural racism” class at The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA led a prayer to Mother Earth, which disturbed some who attended the lecture.

The UCLA Jewish Faculty Resilience Group spoke to numerous witnesses from the lecture and penned a letter to the administration Friday, calling for an “urgent and thorough external review” of its curriculum to put an end to “political indoctrination.”

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The letter went on to describe that an invited speaker “instructed students to touch the floor, ‘mama earth with a fist’ while she made a ‘non-secular’ prayer to ‘mama earth’ and our ‘ancestors,'” the letter said.

The end of the class featured an additional prayer to the pagan deity, this time asking them to stand up. {snip}

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UCLA began implementing a new curriculum called HEALS in 2020. The entire first year of medical school has a particular focus on “Structural Racism and Health Equity.” The curriculum was “redesigned” “to empower students to become physicians committed to… advocac[y] and humanistic care.”

“Diversity isn’t a buzzword. It’s a requirement to treat our communities with clinical excellence. Our community is made up of talented leaders who care deeply and work to impact the world for good. We have a collective commitment to combat structural racism. That commitment spans healthcare, education, and our society at large,” UCLA says about the equity classes.

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