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Originally Posted by Martian
Uh, yeah it is. The ideal situation is one where people don't talk about race because it's a non-issue. Things like this ultimately highlight racial issues, which may be a positive or negative step depending on context.
Being vocal about race automatically implies a middle ground. It's not as bad as it could be, but it's not even close to good.
Personally, I've never understood the appeal of diversity purely for it's own sake. It seems like a knee-jerk opposition reaction to segregation that never actually stops to consider it's own merits. If we assume all races are, in fact, equal then what inherent advantage could a racially diverse group possibly have over a racially homogeneous one?
What I really get from this article is that it's a slow news day in Oregon.
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The problem is that you're looking at this from a different perspective than most Americans; Canada does not have the history with slavery that the United States has. It's a particular unsavory part of our heritage that we haven't fully acknowledged or dealt with; it goes largely unaddressed from a critical perspective in education here in the United States (at least until tertiary education, which some people in the U.S. never get to). We started having the conversation about race in the 1960s with the civil rights movement, but the fact is that we haven't finished it, and it's far from done (proven by the current presidential nomination contest).