re: When did diversity of color become more important than diversity of thought?

I've always thought the diversity lauding people are the absolute most racist of all.

How demeaning it must be to be told by those that supposedly support and love you that you only think and act a specific way or should only think and act a specific way because of the skin tone created by the two people that had sex and created you.

America is the land of freedom and I refuse to believe that humans are incapable of independent thought, the ability to criticize and have rational beliefs that aren't predisposed due only to the color of their skin or the demographic group they fall into or their sexual preferences.

There are so many people I grew up with in very similar circumstances with many of the same shared experiences and we all think very differently and very different opinions. We all grew up in a bubble going to the same schools, same church, first job in the same grocery store as teens, etc.

The diversity needed is in the minds, hearts and souls and you can find a great variance of thought among all races I believe. Although I suspects it is becoming harder and harder to find as the urban schools have become a generational disaster, there are generations of those that grew up learning to depend on gov't checks and handouts instead of working and being pissed about it instead of appreciative.

If I were a minority I'd spit hellfire and brimstone on anyone that suggested that I'm only a certain way because of my skintone. I have more faith in people and love for them than these diversity champions could ever have in their racist bones.