A self-described anti-racism group has filed a federal civil-rights complaint against the State University of New York’s Buffalo of Medicine for running a science prep program that gives preference to “historically underrepresented” students over whites and Asians.

The complaint centers on SUNY Buffalo Med Schools’ year-round Medical Science Technology Entry Program for high school students and its Middle School Summer Enrichment Program for 7th and 8th graders.

The programs give admission preference to high school and middle school students who identify as “Black/African-American,” “American Indian/Alaska Native,” and “Hispanic/ Latino.”

“It is teaching youth that treating people differently based on race and color is acceptable. But such discrimination never is acceptable, and SUNY Buffalo needs to lead by example,” said William Jacobson, founder of the Equal Protection Project of the Legal Insurrection Foundation.

The group filed the complaint Tuesday with the U.S. Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights.

EPP has recently filed lawsuits against SUNY’s Buffalo Law School and Albany U. campus for running or sponsoring race-based programs limited to students of color.

The complaint noted that the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling striking down race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina makes crystal clear that such preference programs violate the 1964 Civil Rights law and the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.

White and Asian applicants must prove they are economically disadvantaged to be considered for the Buffalo Med School programs, unlike minority applicants, the complaint said.

SUNY Buffalo Med School had no immediate comment.