Claudine Gay... meet James Bennett.

 Diversity isn't really all that it is cracked up to be the minute you step out of line and make a decision or voice an opinion that the people in control understand might be divisive.  

It seems the only diversity allowed, on campus or in the media or politics today, is that of those who support the company line... those in lockstep with the ideas being promoted by the power, those who are unwilling to challenge the narrative being told...

It's almost as if all the people in power today are those students who thought education was about learning the professor's personal point of view and parroting it back to them in tests and research papers.  That was never the goal of education though...

In the best classrooms, the leaders listen and sometimes even learn from the students, what they bring with them in lived experiences though doors of the elite and state universities.  Unfortunately, diversity as we practice it today is merely a Benneton ad -- a collection of good looking, colorful, happy and often wealthy people who all think the same thoughts and interpret today's reality through the same rose-colored glasses.  Life is good for them, and if you play their game, you can win the jackpot too!

Real diversity means telling powerful people the truth, consequences be damned. If you are not honest, you're really not much of a professor or a leader, in the classroom or in life.  Look around at America today and ask:  what will it take to fix this broken system and make life here more fair for all, the newcomers as well as those writing their own rules, because of their "connections".

We need more honesty, to encourage our younger generations of Americans to buy into the system.  That's the whole nutshell of what people object to with Hunter Biden's business dealings and the current soft support for the fighting in Ukraine.  We really need to clean shop of those who profitted from the Bush Cheney war years, and those who came after them making promises they could not keep.

Change is gonna come, and for most of us, that's a good thing.  We keep on losing because the game is fixed, and the people in power have no incentive to admit things are going wrong or even work to change them, because they are wealthy beyond their wildest imaginations contributing their current "work" to sustaining this unworkable warring system where everybody "fights" but nobody ever seems to win collectively with others outside their own handpicked team, or even think about why that is so.