The Black Informant

On Multiculturalism

This is the perversion of social virtue that gave us a multiculturalism that has nothing to do with culture. The goal of America’s highly politicized multiculturalism is to create an atavistic form of citizenship - a citizenship of preferential status in which race, ethnicity, and gender are linked to historic victimization to justify entitlements unavailable to other citizens. Culture is a pretext, a cover. The trick of this multiculturalism is to pass off atavisms as if they were culture. So people think they are being “tolerant” of “cultural diversity” when, in fact, they are supporting pure racial power.

…In fact multiculturalism actually suppresses America’s rich variety, because much of actual culture does not mesh with victimization. (from A Dream Deferred by Shelby Steele)