Bless Up Still...
Erm... well, I would say only "familiar" with the basis of eugenic theory. I have not bothered delving, as I don't need to look any further to know it's one bag of folly. And we only need to take one look at the "followers" of the eugenics movement to see wha really ah gwarn with it... Winston Churchill & Adolf Hitler! LOL. Say no more, right?
I get the whole utopian concept that you are promoting, and you may see some small good in promoting celebrated multi-culturalism, but the reality is, Still, that these initiatives are just another invention for methods in civilising blacks. This time it's all dressed up in liberalism and politically correct semantics. Some time ago it was dressed up temperance or Quakerism, but it never did us any good. The I sight?
It all means nothing until white people are willing to do the kind of self-searching for self-knowledge and self-evaluation that black people are encouraged to do for better forward direction. There has been no trend towards the evaluation of the structures of dominant white society. None. Ever. White people are yet to connect truly with their past mistakes... what makes you think you will not committ them again? Especially since there always seems to be some justification... e.g. native americans were fighting each other before we got here (!! I mean, come on!) There is still no genuine, heart felt remorse.
White people are not ready for egality. Simple as that.
Have you ever conducted a class where the class is encouraged to be free, free their minds, free their expectations... exist for a second in non-partiality... then they themselves nominate the division of the classroom into power groups that represent those dominant in society? Then deconstruct the foundations of the respective power groups in order to understand one group in relation to another. Then challenge the foundation! Challenge the validity of each group's stake of power!
This whole glossing over idea, let's all be nice to one another... nah man! That's some castles in clouds business. Nothing gets fixed... and this position is STILL dictated by the power stake of white privilege. White society is all Will & Grace now, civilized, upmarket... etc... they don't want to hear about how they got there and who had to lose out, they are just ready to "celebrate diversity" so that there are a variety of ethnic food restaurants to go to, etc. They all just want everyone to be nice to them, so we can all be pleasant and they can live happily in the American Dream... while InI remain in the American Nightmare. It can't go so... not til we're fixed.
I do not see "tolerance" being intolerant of continuation of injustice. So, it's irrelevant to me.
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