actly how this differs from the traditional racist notion that all blacks (Jews, Mexicans, Chinese, etc.) think alike is unclear. What is clear is that the multiculturalists have abandoned the ideal that all persons should be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. Indeed, the multiculturalists seem to believe that a person’s character is determined by the color of his skin and by his ancestry.
Such convictions lead multiculturalists to conclude that, again in the words of Asante, “[T]here is no common American culture.” The logic is simple, but wrong-headed: Since Americans (or more often, their foreBalkanization in the Air
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