The Browning of America
20th May 2015
“We believe our diversity, our differences, when joined together by a common set of ideals, makes us stronger, makes us more creative, makes us different,” Barack Obama pronounced at a citizenship ceremony last Fourth of July. Until half a century ago most serious historians would have called such an opinion ignorant or naïve. Ethnic diversity implies cultural diversity—if it did not, ethnic diversity would soon disappear. Cultural diversity means division, division means weakness, and weakness means, eventually, unfreedom. Such, at least, is the traditional view, and history appears to vindicate it.…The motto E pluribus unum is a sign that the founders saw diversity as a challenge to be mastered, not a resource to be tapped. – See more at: http://www.claremont.org/article/the-browning-of-america/#.VVxk8uc0pap