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...Given that, political leaders have the option either of exploiting racial tensions by ranting about quotas or of trying to help all Americans understand that a true meritocracy is impossible as long as we cling to racial stereotypes. It may be comforting to pretend that quotas lie at the root of America's racial problems. Yet deep down we probably all know that if the truth were so simple, quotas would not even be an issue...
Back in 1972, when Tom Root returned from Vietnam as a 21-year-old Army corporal, he hid in an airport bathroom wishing he could change into civilian clothes before running the gauntlet of war protesters. When he and his Illinois National Guard unit returned from the gulf last month, the parade stretched 13 miles along an Illinois interstate. "The response of the community was overwhelming," he says. "We were not prepared for the homecoming...
...country has experienced "primarily chaos and confusion" in this century, says Richard Holbrooke, former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Hundreds of thousands of young Chinese rose up against their government in 1989. In spite of the continuing efforts of the security police to root out "spiritual pollution," which is what they call Western ideas and values, the youth will probably rebel again...
Sadly, however, undergraduate education at Harvard seems to be a case of the fish rotting from the tail up. Administrators can divert money and attention toward the College, but the root of the problem lies in the departmental bureaucracy. To put it simply, Harvard is plagued by an excess of "teachers" who simply do not want to have to teach...
Rather than waging a which hunt against the "politically correct" just as the PC crowd tries to root out "racists, sexists and homophobes," conservatives must keep in mind that all ideological purges quickly border on absurdity...