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By NEOMI M. RAO
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
Welcome to the multicultural college campus.
Here you will be defined by your race, gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation even before you enroll in classes. The labels come quickly and stick hard.
Arriving at Yale three years ago, I thought diversity on campus would mean that racial and gender differences would be taken in stride. I through wrong.
Through the diversity bean counters consider me a minority (Asian Indian, if you’re curious), I find myself in the awkward position of not considering my race and gender very important. To the “multicultural police” this means I’m a “traitor.” According to them, I’m supposed to be out there marching to “take back the night,” demonstrating for more Asian-American deans or throwing myself on the ground, covered with ketchup, to protect the mistreatment of Haitian refugees. Unfortunately, these preachers of tolerance apparently cannot tolerate a minority woman who claims an identity independent of race and gender.
Today’s multiculturalists are the self-appointed heirs of the civilrights movement, but their message is worlds apart: divisiveness not togetherness. Rather than seeking to reconcile differences and focusing on the humanity common to all people, multiculturalism fans the flames of minority resentment against everybody else, including other minorities. Thus, blacks are taught to resent Latinos, because Latinos supposedly are taking away their jobs.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamt that one day people would be judged by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin.
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