The failure of anti-racism

Tom Mountain writes about how anti-racist education has backfired:

These zealous anti-racist buffoons never consider that perhaps their overemphasis on human differences has created an inevitable gulf among students; that their constant rhetoric on the diversity theme has reinforced a balkanization among the youth; that their relentless hammering on the white oppressor-black victim theme has led to an alienation of the races. That their constant dwelling on black scientists, black poets, black astronauts, Malcolm X, the Underground Railroad, the Civil Rights Movement and slavery, slavery and more slavery, might have caused some annoyance, some pent-up frustration and resentment among some white students turned off by this relentless anti-racist in-your-face agenda?

They never consider that by constantly shoving their ant-racist agenda down the students' throats year after year that maybe, just maybe, some will lash out against it.

Consider that the most dramatic racial incidents have occurred in those two schools that have been the most zealous adherents to anti-racist education, Newton North and Bowen Elementary. And if these overt racial incidents are mere indicators of a deep seething racial antagonism among some segments of the student population, then it's logical to conclude that the schools' anti-racist-respect-for-human-differences campaign has been an abysmal failure.

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