Wednesday, January 07, 2004

I do have a beef with people complaining about multiculturalism. I mean, what's the point of teaching history if you're going to omit half of it? There are different ethnicities in the states, there always were, and some people should just accept it. Not to mention, the implicit message of monoculturalism is 'you're only important enough to talk about if you're white'. Yea, that's a real helpful message in this age of increasing immigration, not to mention, it's not actually true. Skin color is just how much melanin you have in your skin, and has nothing to do with your human worth. And people get plenty of white history too- most of the multiculturism people whine about is stuff like black history month. Oh no, kids have to write a report on George Washington Carver, oh stop the presses, they are sooooo oppressed. Oh, no, someone recited a Langston Hughes poem- we're being taken over by the coloureds! So get over it, or move someplace that's all white. We won't miss you.

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