Posted on 04/17/2021 4:59:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
When I was young, Americans prided themselves in being part of the "great melting pot" — good times. People from diverse cultures throughout the world could come here and become full-fledged Americans. Our constitution provided a framework for anyone to become successful. All that was required was determination and hard work. In achieving the American dream, our forefathers shed their ancestral heritages and became enthusiastic Americans — and that was something to be proud of. But we don't melt anymore. Now we categorize. I blame it on the diversity movement.
The diversity movement was initiated by a number of universities in the 1960s. It was initially conceived as a way to address genuine equal opportunity issues. It was viewed by many organizations as a way to avoid lawsuits based on discrimination. In the 1980s, Lewis Griggs coined the term "valuing diversity" — and that's when it really took off. The ideology of "valuing diversity" has infiltrated the human resources (H.R.) departments of most major corporations and spawned an industry. A network of consultants and trainers now provide diversity training throughout government and the private sector. It's big money. Unfortunately, its ideology runs counter to that of a "great melting pot."
I have an example to illustrate its corrosive nature. At the behest of our H.R. department, the company I used to work for created a diversity council. It comprised representatives from numerous racial, ethnic, sex, disability, and religious groups. Its mission was to create a company environment that was welcoming to all of the above groups. The council wanted a high-level executive to be a member, to give them some "juice." They asked the company president to assign my boss to the council. Bob was a retired admiral and 100% proud American.
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I was born in 1960, it was a very good year.
It is now racist and anti-diverse to think that people should be helped to assimilate into the common culture.
It is the realization that some groups could never assimilate into a WASP culture that caused the change; now some people can openly insist 1+1=3 without repercussion or judgment, and the rest of us should just pretend they are correct. Fake jobs are created to transfer wealth to them, so they are “bought off” rather than living as a permanent underclass on the fringes of society.
At the same time, the WASP culture itself has been under assault for more than half a century; more and more whites are insisting 1+1=3. The WASP culture itself has been derided as “white privilege”; apparently it is racist to expect a non-white to obtain an education, , learn to read and write fluent English, work hard while paying taxes, and breed responsibly.
I now avoid interaction with any minority. Offensive words are subjective and change daily, if not hourly.
If I don’t speak to anyone then they can’t accuse me of saying something that makes them “feel bad.”
It’s purely a safety mechanism
I’m rather shocked the Maoist Left in this country, perhaps old Sandy Cortez, putting a bill together to remove the racissss e pluribus unum off of everything. And, no, I’m not kidding.
That is one of the best explanations I’ve seen.
For Pittsburgh Pirate faithful, yes.
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I NEVER cared about race/color of skin. NEVER. I had a Mexican American boyfriend in high school. My first crush was the most popular kid at my high school, a black kid. A lot of my girlfriends were first gen Americans, their parents were from Mexico and were the most Conservative, wonderful, generous, patriotic people I have ever met. My first husband was 1/2 Japanese. Two of my best ‘work’ friends were black women, whom I admired and adored. I now see race in everything and avoid it at all costs. Congratulations Mao-ist Leftist trash. Mission accomplished.
I was born in 1947. Yes, 1960 was a very good year!
Yup. It’s high time MLK was canceled because of his “I have a dream” nonsense.
I remember a similar incident from the same era. I was an engineering manager in a large company at the time. (I have since retired). I helped out the company by part-time recruiting engineers at the university I graduated from. The HR department strongly encouraged “affirmative action” - defined as hiring “minorities”. At the time, what we now call “Asians” were considered to be minorities. We were required to categorize candidates as minorities, or not, but we were not allowed to ask candidate for this information. That left us with only obvious physical characteristics as our guide.
The HR gnomes, bureaucrats as they were, ultimately needed much more quantifiable methods than guessing. Once a anyone was hired, they were required to enter their place of birth on the company record. It was decided, at least in our company, that anyone born east of the Ganges River was a “minority”, and anyone born west of it was not. (This was obviously prior to decisions that place Muslims in the minority category.)
I remember one poor guy with skin color that was very dark. He was getting an engineering degree, but none of the interviewing managers recommended hiring him based on his interview performance. The HR department hired him anyway, based on the observation of his physical characteristics. After he was hired, he was placed in a “non-minority” category, based on his place of birth.
I used the term “poor guy” because none of this was his fault. As a graduating engineer from an accredited university, he clearly had the potential for a well paying job in an appropriate company. Our company was not appropriate for him. He spent a couple of years there, bouncing around in temporary assignments, and eventually left. It was unsatisfying, wasted time for him as well as us. In my view, affirmative action is far more harmful than helpful, to all of society, including those “affirmed”
I remember learning about the “melting pot” in grade school. Understanding the harmonious melding of cultures to make our united nation was a beautiful concept.
By Jr. High School we were introduced to Social Studies. which broke us into ethnic groups. By high school there were race riots, and by the time I graduated from college, progressive educators, legislators, and Deep State were well on their way dividing us in every way imaginable.
Like Humpty Dumpy our nation has taken a great fall. Can We the People put Humpty Dumpy back together again?
1960 .... Things were much clearer on who we were and what was right.
I was 6. My father needed his one gallon can of paint thinner refilled. He told me to take it to the hardware store. One and half mile walk down a dusty country road into town. Amos, one of the few black people in town, and I went into the basement of the hardware store to fill the can. He was thin and sinewy and I was fascinated by how the veins in his arms stood out. I carefully signed my name on my Dad’s account for the thinner.
I trudged home having to put the can down several times because it was now heavy. I got home an told my Dad that Amos had helped me to fill the can.
He said “To you, he is Mr. Jones.” And for many years after that, he was Mr. Jones, even into my adulthood.
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1960--Wilbert Harrison
In 1960 black communities from Oakland to Miami were vibrant; societies were family friendly, youths were urged to perform well in school, fathers worked, mothers nurtured. Then Lyndon Johnson figured a way to enslave the black community. There is no way to put that Humpty-Dumpty together because altruistic leadership in the black community was also destroyed.
1960 was my favorite year of the Sixties. If only Richard Nixon had shaved on the afternoon of September 26, it would have been a perfect year and the Sixties would have played out far differently than they did.
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