Just finished watching the Oscars with Chris Rock making quips about ''DIVERSITY'' or the lack thereof, to the largely white audience. It was good to see quite a number of blacks in the audience who looked perfectly comfortable in their surroundings.. At the end of the show, Chris couldn't help shouting out , ''Black Lives Matter'' over the applause.
DIVERSITY as an political idea has been around for over 20 + years in America and has all the trappings of instilling in Americans that they and their fellow citizens should all be equal in the eyes of the government and right down to neighbourhood level. Without it...racism will thrive.
DIVERSITY as an political idea has been around for over 20 + years in America and has all the trappings of instilling in Americans that they and their fellow citizens should all be equal in the eyes of the government and right down to neighbourhood level. Without it...racism will thrive.
So I looked up ''diverse'' and ''diversity'' in the dictionary and found that diverse means ''of a different kind, dissimilar, separate, unlike'' and diversity means ''the state or fact of being different.'' Interesting....separate but NOT equal. I think Will Smith and company have got it wrong when it comes to having more blacks represented on a equal basis in receiving awards.
Now here is the reality! This word DIVERSITY, that has been held as a knife to the white establishment's throats has been distorted over the years to really mean a person is granted a position, an honour or a special accolade when they haven't achieved it and really don't deserve it.
The most obvious example is when black students are given university places just because of their colour, not their high scores thereby excluding those students with better scores. It's become a sort of forced equality that the real definition of diversity doesn't imply. There are many other examples of this.
The way I see it....being rewarded for a lack of excellence or achievement is a kind of tokenism that is in effect a kind of reverse racism. DIVERSITY has become a dirty word and needs to be cleaned up!
Now here is the reality! This word DIVERSITY, that has been held as a knife to the white establishment's throats has been distorted over the years to really mean a person is granted a position, an honour or a special accolade when they haven't achieved it and really don't deserve it.
The most obvious example is when black students are given university places just because of their colour, not their high scores thereby excluding those students with better scores. It's become a sort of forced equality that the real definition of diversity doesn't imply. There are many other examples of this.
The way I see it....being rewarded for a lack of excellence or achievement is a kind of tokenism that is in effect a kind of reverse racism. DIVERSITY has become a dirty word and needs to be cleaned up!
