Diversity: Be Careful What You Ask For

 

There is this elderly black gentleman who I became acquainted with about five years ago who had told me that he had moved to a cute and quaint safe little town in the early 1970s. He told me that he absolutely loved it, except that he noticed back then that this cute town was predominantly populated with white people, and that he thought that this cute town could be so much better and safer if only more black people had lived there too.¹ (The word “diversity” had not yet been part of the lexicon of the general population back then).

Needless to say, with all the madness of the Vietnam War era, the Civil Rights era, and Watergate, the politicians began promoting policies that were formed in the mid/late 1960’s of diversifying cities/towns/neighborhoods. The elderly gentleman told me that he was initially pleased by this because people who “looked like” him were now his neighbors. But as we all know, “diversity” was never intended to being a mere “sprinkle” of non-white men, but rather “diversity was intended to being a deluge (a tsunami) of non-white men in the effort to destroy neighborhoods.

Turn the clock ahead by 50 years, the elderly gentleman speaks fondly of the early days when he first moved there when it was a safe and friendly little town when it was full of white people, which had changed drastically for the worse (as he said in his own words) because of “bl—k people”. I did not respond, nor did I make any facial gestures in case he was trying to entrap me by me agreeing with him, so I stood there as stoic as a Terracatta Warrior and was completely expressionless.

As we learned from Aesop’s Fables from 2,600 years ago in the fable “The Dog and the Shadow”, be happy with what you have, because one’s own greed will result in them losing everything, and thus have nothing.

1^ This reminds me of watching a Horror Movie for the second time and you know what will occur, and you are yelling at the characters on the screen “…how f’k’ng stupid are you…”, by you trying to warn them on avoiding their foreseeable fate by the ki!!er. But alas, the characters make the same stupid decisions over and over again, despite the yelling you do to warn them of the inevitable. The same principle applies to those true-believers who honestly cherish diversity despite nearly sixty (60) years of proven disaster 100% of the time (or nearly 100%) with no exceptions (or with statistically minimal exceptions) when diversity happens to be more than a mere sprinkle. WTF!

 

 

By John (the other John)