But I will say that if you’re looking at schools that are judging people based on the color of their skin rather than the content of their character, and they’re not a traditionally minority school, I think we get into some really scary ground. You’re going to have people saying, “Well, the only reason you got in the school is because you’re Black.” Well, that’s considered racism. But when you start saying, “You’re going to get into school because you’re Black.” Well, if you’re a traditionally Black school, I get it. But if you’re not, why does that not alarm people that that’s going to create racism, that people are going to say, “Oh, you have a double standard”?

Take a look at UCLA and their admissions, tell me that it’s equal, that it’s based on the 9% of the population that’s Black.  I’m going to tell you as a guy who came from abject poverty, I grew up with nothing. Should I be punished because I’m white, even though I had nothing growing up? I had a single mom who had no money, should I be excluded from a school because I just happen to be white? Does that give me privilege to get into that school? Of course not. It is based on hard work. Should I be excluded because I work really hard, but I have the wrong color of skin? That is racism by definition. Why would we support that?

I’ll tell you, a lot of kids in my Morehouse school came from physician families. Did they have a disadvantage over this poor white kid who came from a single parent secretary? Who’s got the advantage here? You tell me.

ACEP Now: What do you think about unionization in emergency medicine in order to try to get better working conditions when we’re being employees of hospitals or employees of big corporate groups?

Rep. McCormick: Unfortunately this is a byproduct of the environment we created. We’ve done a poor job of controlling residencies. When you flood the market with people, then you’re going to end up having horrible hours, working on weekends, working overnights, and working on holidays, and getting paid a pittance, because you have flooded the market. So that’s really the only way to fight back.