(Taken from Tal Bachman on the Mark Steyn webpage).
This if from Democrat Arthur Schlesinger. In his 1991 napalm-in-print offering, The Disuniting of America, the former Kennedy adviser flamed the nascent cult of multiculturalism as a potentially nation-destroying force fueled by academic fraud.
In words no Democrat would ever type today, Schlesinger wrote:
"There is surely no reason for Western civilization to have guilt trips laid on it by champions of cultures based on despotism, superstition, tribalism, and fanaticism. In this regard the Afrocentrists are especially absurd. The West needs no lectures on the superior virtue of those who sustained slavery until Western imperialism abolished it...who still keep women in subjection and cut off their clitorises, who carry out racial persecutions not only against Indians and other Asians but against fellow Africans from the wrong tribes, who show themselves either incapable of operating a democracy or ideologically hostile to the democratic idea, and who in their tyrannies and massacre, their Idi Amins and Boukassas, have stamped with utmost brutality on human rights."
Schlesinger wasn't done:
"Whatever the particular crimes of Europe, that continent is also the source—the unique source—of those liberating ideas of individual liberty, political democracy, the rule of law, human rights, and cultural freedom that constitute our most precious legacy and to which most of the world today aspires. These are European ideas, not Asian, nor African, nor Middle Eastern ideas, except by adoption."
nice, thanks!