Amerika

When we say something sucks — shortened from “sucks eggs,” apparently an early 1900s insult — we are noting that it both does not achieve its purported function and is a miserable experience to boot.

For example, your final exams suck because they do not actually measure how good of a student you are, or your value in life, and in lieu of doing something useful like that, they make you jump through hoops for the pretense of fairness.

Diversity sucks for White and whitish people beyond a doubt. It is after all a silk glove White genocide, and ending a people is pretty horrible. But it also sucks hard for minority groups who get to feel perpetually out of place.

From a newsletter from Alex Ihama of the Canadian Congress on Diversity:

Truth be told, when are we going to move past slavery?

When are we going to move past the “celebration” of Black History?

When are we going to move past someone being introduced as the first Black executive, the first Black judge, the first Black CEO, the first Black this or the first Black that?

When are we going to move past protests, marches, and uncomfortable conversations?

When are we going to move past Black History Month altogether?

These are not new questions.
They come up every February.
Sometimes sincerely.
Often impatiently.
Sometimes with genuine curiosity.
Other times with quiet irritation.

And here is the uncomfortable truth:

These questions usually come from people who do not fully understand Black history.

Or worse, people who do not understand history at all.

Because I understand some of history, here is my answer: never.

You cannot move past these things because in diversity, your identity is your only property, and groups tribe up more not less as a majority fades.

You are always going to be viewed as outsiders. Even if everyone mixes into a nice uniform shade of brown, some will be darker than others and they are going to get treated less well because they are recognized as Other by their compatriots.

Perhaps if everyone in America and Canada who was not Black died you would have a better time, but then you would be inheritors of a nation created for others, in a land foreign to the conditions of your evolution.

After all, America roughly parallels the condition of Europe from Finland to Portugal, but it does not resemble Africa at all, although northern South America and Central America sort of do.

The cruelty of diversity is that it detaches you from your culture, then your genetics, and finally your sense of purpose. Most of the third world nations out there are mixed-race and have very visible public culture but almost no private culture.

Ending diversity would save you from that fate, just as it would save Us from that fate. It is worth considering that diversity is simply a failed institution because its design was always unrealistic, and so we must escape for our mutual benefit.

Tags: africa, diversity