Why Americans should celebrate diversity

You would think it would be a fact we would simply accept as an integral aspect of America from the beginning.

A country founded by white colonists in a land already inhabited by red men to which they imported black slaves could hardly be anything but diverse.

But popular awareness of demographic change that will lead in a few decades to non-Hispanic whites dropping from being the American majority to being the American plurality has ruled that out.

Nowadays we are forced to choose between two reactions to that demographic change.

An express and explicit embrace of diversity, the outright celebration of diversity, is now the only alternative to intolerance and reciprocal hatred among our diverse ethnicities, religious groups and gender identities as well as persons of diverse sexes and sexual orientations.

And in American politics the practical alternative is the white Nativism and white nationalism, the deliberate and open pursuit of white supremacy and the exclusive dominance of Christianity in our culture and the law, that now so strikingly mark the Republican Party.

While the embrace of diversity has become a leading feature of the Democratic Party.

So far, the greatest president of the 21st Century has been a black man born in Hawaii, Barack Hussein Obama.

And so far, the worst president of the 21st Century has been Donald Trump, a white Nativist Republican from New York.

Update.

Of course, the Children of Zinn who insist upon the weaponized history and white-bashing ideology of hate that is indigenism are also to be found among the Democrats, and very influential among them, and their embrace of diversity does not at all extend to whites.

Recall the conflicting racial attitudes reflected in representations of LBJ's role, and the role of white politicians generally, in the civil rights struggle, on the one hand grossly misrepresented in the film Selma, and on the other much more accurately stated in Hillary's defense of that president against that film's lies.

It is Hillary and other Democrats like her whose commitment to diversity is the more genuinely inclusive.