Originally posted by

J

Stephanie,

You ask the question, how am I ever going to be truly diverse with an attitude like that? However, you didn't explain why I (or anyone for that matter) would want to be diverse in the first place. What are the benefits of diversity, racially or culturally especially, or anything else as well? Certainly it helps to have a diverse knowledge, but even that isn't necessarily important.

I don't know anything about you, but you claim you are neither of the types I mentioned in my last post (elitist White or recipient minority). Are your sure? Again, I can only assume, but do you really practice what you preach? Think about it for a minute. Diversity is defined as a point of difference. If you attend Eastern, from a racial standpoint, you aren't living diversely. If you live within a 50-mile radius of Eastern, you certainly aren't living diversely. Have you ever lived/worked/attended school where you were the distinct racial minority? I don't mean a situation where you listen to hip-hop, reggaeton, eat rice and beans, have a few Black or Oriental friends, then go back home to your all-(fill in your race here) community. Look at your friends. Are they your friends because they think differently than you? Like the things that you don't like? It's easy to say you promote diversity when you don't have to actually live it. Look around the Eastern campus. Do you see Black students hanging around a lot of other races? Sure, there are some, but the majority of them hang around Coleman Hall where there are sure to be many more people like them. When the minority (minority in population, not necessarily minority in race or culture) talks about diversity, they don't give a rat's a** about other races. In the case of Blacks, do you really think that Black people on this campus want to bring in nothing but races other than Black? Because if a Black person is true to the word "DIVERSITY" that would be the case. What they're really saying is that they want more Black people. People like themselves. That's promoting homogeneity, not diversity.

After all, what's wrong with hanging around with people like yourself? The Church of Diversity parishioners like to preach diversity. So, by definition if you like Thrash metal, you should be listening hip-hop, jazz, classical, polka, bluegrass, folk, etc. You know, because you like diversity. If you like the color red, you should have many things in colors other than red. If you like chicken, you should be eating beef, pork, lamb, etc.

Like I said, I don't know you, but you sound rather hypocritical when you speak of Bob 'unknowingly' running into me as though once he got to know how I truly feel he wouldn't be as accepting, because my views differ from his. That's the somewhat paradoxical position of diversity. Those of your ilk don't like diverse thought.

Again, White people are the only people that ever (E-V-E-R) speak of diversity as the majority. Show me one other race that gives a damn about importing people into their respective countries/cities/towns/universities where they are the majority. It's because they (Whites) have this patriarchal/matriarchal condescending stance that they are responsible to help all these poor, little, helpless people get their fair share.

Remember, Diversity=Point of Difference. Apparently, we have a point of difference about diversity. According to your logic, you like that I don't like diversity. If I agreed with you, you would hate me for being the same as you. Oh, the joys of diversity.