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A Superficial Conversation About Race
is the completely fictional, not at all based on any real-life goings on (certainly not anything related to the Democratic presidential nominee) topic of a superb Onion op-ed.
Black, white, yellow, green, or brown— we can all be callously summed up in a trite statement of unity.
Like it or not, the U.S. needs a stupid conversation on the issue of race relations. Perhaps more importantly, we need this stupid dialogue to be couched in the most self-righteous, know-it-all attitudes on the part of those involved, as if they have no idea whatsoever of how much more complicated the issue is, and how little their one-dimensional approach to it brings to the table….I’m talking about ill-informed citation of unconfirmed statistics on affirmative action programs. I’m talking about patronizing notions of ethnic identity. I’m talking about multisyllabic, intellectual-sounding terms like “victimization” and “social responsibility” and “self-actualization.”
Here’s the link again, the full piece is worth a read.
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