Pondering
the smoking ruins of American racial policy, I wonder whether it isn’t
time to say publicly what many, if not most, of both races know: It
isn’t working. It isn’t going to work. If it were, it would have. If it
were working, we would not need the unending laws to force the races
together when they don’t want to be together. If people wanted
diversity, it would happen without compulsion..
The
hope that black and white would mingle amicably if only segregation
were dismantled relied on a peculiarly American inattention to life and
history, and on a belief that people will behave as we want them to,
instead of how they observably do behave. Human nature remains human
nature, no matter how hard one holds one’s breath and turns blue.
It is not an easy thing that we try to
do. Frequently, far smaller disparities than those between black and
white lead to bloody conflict. Catholics and Protestants, Shia and
Sunni, Jew and Christian are often virtually indistinguishable, yet
share a history of internecine butchery of each other. Is there
anywhere an example of two groups so large and utterly different as
blacks and whites successfully merging?
Despite our best imaginings, race is far
more than skin deep. The races differ wildly in culture, appearance,
attitudes, views of each other, language, musical taste, dress,
attitudes toward law, education, family, and the role of government.
Much of what blacks believe about whites is almost psychotic. Exceptions and degrees, yes, but the centerline remains.
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