[so_real]

Wow, I had to read that three times to make sense of it, but when I got through the flowerly prose, I agreed 100%. He must have really knocked the socks off those 18th century folks.

He was an amazing orator wasn't he! However, I must honestly say I believe that speech would only shock *our* contemporaries. Washington's contemporaries shared in his beliefs. In fact, in the same speech he addresses his fellow citizens saying: "With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles."

I'm glad you liked the quote. If you'd like the whole speech, click here.

[risk]

"With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles." --George Washington's farewell speech in 1796

And yet we are told every day by the TV, our public school boards, our politicians, our newspapers, and culturewar.org websites that diversity is our new Holy Grail.

Diversity is something to manage, not encourage. We can manage it well if we aren't force-fed it.