“This business of dividing up the country into ethnic groups will frankly destroy us.”
The America of the 1980s is already completely destroyed; few vestiges of it remain. The original meritocracy is gone, along with opportunity.
“Work towards a common culture and the idea of a common good.”
Anyone even proposing a common culture is viewed as hateful and narrow-minded, and the definition of a “common good” has been so diluted as to require inclusion of every godless act the left can imagine.
The “Melting Pot” is dead, replaced with the “Tossed Salad” and Balkanization.