The Young Americans for Freedom have a newsletter on their World Wide Web page that classifies multiculturalism as an "expression of a cowardly nature," part of a "slave mindset" for those with no personal responsibility. The author goes as far to classify multiculturalism as "hell." Why is diversity such a threat? Does it in some way threaten your existence, or is it maybe that there is some subconscious desire to keep other racial and ethnic groups divided (the ol' divide and conquer)? I am going to show you, with help from a noted sociologist and psychologist, how diversity is a threat to people such as these because it places the white domination of society in jeopardy.

When multicultural activities occur, groups of people who have historically been oppressed find common ground in shared history and bond together so as to form a stronger, more cohesive unit whose interests can be addressed by a society that has ignored their respective individual pleas. This establishes a threat to the control of the society by the dominant group. Thus, we (whites, as the dominant group) try to justify the suppression of these movements of identification by claiming they are helping purport racism, when, in fact, those same movements are reactions to an established racism (not conscious at times) we have helped foster. Affirmative action is an example. We all deny having racist tendencies. But we have grown up in a society whose dominant group has been white, and when we see other races clamoring for a hold on equality, we start sweating and concoct some inane idea such as the notion that diversity helps foster racism.

Jean Baker Miller, a sociologist, points out that ". . . dominant groups generally do not like to be reminded of the existence of inequality. Because rationalizations have been created to justify the social arrangements, it is easy to believe everything is as it should be." I don't understand how some of our kind can get angry when diversity or multiculturalism is brought up. The white race has managed to impose itself upon all others and shove our supposedly "superior" culture upon them. We've had hundreds of years of cultural domination (not because ours was better, we just had more weapons), and when they ask for a month, a week or even a day, we get all flustered and claim it's racism! I can't believe my own kind for doing so! Minorities are coming together so as to form a stronger cohesive unit with which to more effectively fight institutional racism. The minute the low-level racism practiced around our country ends will be the same minute multicultural movements end. When a black man can walk into a car dealership and get the same price quoted for the same car (as opposed to the current $1,000 difference discovered by an ABC report) as a white man, he will happily abandon his racial enclave and join in as an equal member of society. This goes for all minority groups.

Beverly Daniel Tatum, a psychology professor, wrote: "Dominant groups, by definition, set the parameters within which the subordinate operates." We tell minorities what to learn, we establish what jobs they will get and what future they will have. We, being a "civil" society, should allow this trend of domination and subordination to end and invite them to join a more united society. Multiculturalism is not racism. It is an attempt to fight a racist society whose every power is pitted against the success of the minority. Stop the racism, and you will finally see a true unification of all groups throughout the country. As Martin Luther King Jr. said: "Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes (or others) in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."