Race-based Field Trip
No one can argue with the all-out niftyness of elementary-school kids getting to meet a real rocket scientist. Unless, that is, if only the black students get to go.
That’s what happened in Ann Arbor.
James Taranto hits the nail on the head:
But why only black youngsters? We are forever hearing that white Americans continue to harbor “racial resentment,” derogatory stereotypes, even flatly racist attitudes toward blacks. In this column’s opinion, that problem is overstated. But it certainly couldn’t hurt to show pupils of pallor that rocket scientists don’t necessarily “look like them.”
Further, who’s to say an accomplished black adult can’t be a role model for a white child, or vice versa? The multicultural mindset is impoverished inasmuch as it sees people primarily as members of a subpopulation, rather than as Americans or human beings.
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