ugnet_: Assimilation is better than diversity

[Mulindwa Edward]

Assimilation Is Better Than Diversity By Charley Reese 1-22-3 Affirmative action ought to be killed outright. It's a racist policy, and it's an insult to black Americans. Stripped of all the hogwash rhetoric, affirmative action says to blacks: "We know you can't compete on an equal footing, so we will award you 20 points just for having black skin. Don't forget to be grateful to your white liberal masters." Paternalism is insulting. Liberals try to rationalize affirmative action by extolling the virtues of diversity. Point one: We are a diverse nation with or without affirmative action. If there is a white person who's reached majority without ever coming in contact with a black person, then the white must have been raised in Pot Hole, Mont., without benefit of television or movies. Point two: White liberals admit they covertly believe in black inferiority, since their own statement is that without affirmative action, there will be no diversity. They are saying, as plainly as they can say it, that without special favoritism based on race, blacks will not be able to compete with whites. Point three: There is no virtue in diversity. A casual look at the world will tell anybody but an idiot that those countries with homogenous or nearly homogenous populations are stable, while those countries with diverse populations tend to be unstable. Which is more stable, Sweden or the Balkans? The Balkans are a perfect example of diversity in action. Diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds have produced some of the bitterest and bloodiest conflicts in Europe. Our own diversity has been the source of many conflicts - often bloody, and not a few based on race. The truth is that the human race is tribal. Tribes compete and often feud. The British built an empire playing one tribe against another. Only when the people of different tribes can unite with some higher set of ideals and ideas that override their tribal differences can there be peace and strength. In short, we ought to be constantly preaching assimilation, not diversity. Diversity will kill us; assimilation will make us strong. The sad fate of the American Indians illustrates that point. They were nearly annihilated because they simply could not overcome their tribal differences while the non-Indian population united against them. They drowned in a wave of immigration. The present generation of Americans will meet the same fate if they don't find the backbone to close the borders and apply some tar and feathers to all these diversity preachers. Anybody preaching diversity is trying to weaken America, either for malicious reasons or because he or she is just stupid. Stupidity probably kills more people than malice. I agree with Teddy Roosevelt that there should be no room for hyphenated Americans in the United States. You are either an American or you're not, regardless of where you or your ancestors came from. The game afoot, of course, is vile politicians playing one group off another for political gains. Americans ought to be outraged by this dangerous, cynical exploitation of people, but outrage is apparently as extinct as the passenger pigeon. I was outraged some years ago when I read that a Colorado public school, which had assigned students the task of writing an essay on the Fourth of July, told the Hispanic students they could write about Cinco de Mayo. No, they should not. If their purpose in being in Colorado is to become American citizens, then their independence day is the Fourth of July, not the fifth of May. If their purpose is to remain Mexican, then they should go home. It is a big, big mistake to abandon assimilation in favor of diversity. In the long run, unless it is reversed, it will prove fatal, and the United States will become the Dis-United States. So, yes, kill affirmative action, and quit yapping about diversity. � 2002 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.        The Mulindwas communication group "With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"