I’m working on a post about “diversity.” In the meantime, check out this oldie but goodie by Walter Williams, Phony Diversity. By the way, have you VOTED today?
Diversity is a big buzzword on college and university campuses. Diversity has fogged and claimed the minds of campus administrators so much so that they’ve created diversity fiefdoms. Harvard University Medical School has an Office for Diversity and Community Partnership. Brown University has a Diversity Institute. UC Berkeley has a Diversity Committee and a Diversity Officer. At George Mason University, where I teach, there’s a Diversity Advisory Board and an Office for Diversity Programs and Services. At most colleges and universities, there’s a diversity or multiculturalism agenda to propagandize students….For the bulk of universities and colleges, diversity means race quotas, sex quotas and programs to insure that representative forms of sexual deviancy become an accepted norm. To insure this politically correct vision of campus life, there’s one form of diversity that can’t be tolerated. That’s ideological and political diversity; there must be uniformity and identity.
Here’s an interesting development: “In the name of diversity, fewer spaces appear to be available for African-American freshmen at historically black colleges and universities. In fact, many of these schools have begun to recruit white students. At least one, Bluefield State College in West Virginia, now has a majority white enrollment,” writes Julianne Malveaux (My emphasis).
Important Update: A leftist blog (Daily Kos) is apparently instructing others on how to cheat in the weblogs contest. Hopefully he and his minions will be disqualified. See Little Green Footballs and Captain’s Quarters for details. Kevin at Wizbang, who’s putting in so much time and effort on the contest, is trying to curb the cheating. He has more here.
If anyone wants to vote for me, please don’t cheat.
Diversity-related Update: Glenn Reynolds posts a blurb from TIME Magazine on Tavis Smiley’s departure from NPR:
New York — President George W. Bush’s cabinet is more diverse than National Public Radio, Tavis Smiley tells TIME in an exclusive interview. “It is ironic that a Republican President has an Administration that is more inclusive and more diverse than a so-called liberal-media-elite network,” Smiley says.
