re: “Diversity is our strength” - biggest lie ever told

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diversity is a huge strength of this country.

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The problem with this thread is that no one is defining "diversity."

You're defining it in your post as race (and to a lesser extend gender), and some other posters are as well.

I think the vast majority (even here) would agree that diversity of race is a non-factor. It's not important at all.

Even diversity of culture can work. The problem is when you have no shared culture and no shared values. You can differ on points A-B-C as long as you agree on X-Y-Z.

Our problem is that we've sold lots and lots of people on the idea that they need not conform to any aspect of mainstream culture anymore—that instead, mainstream culture needs to accomodate them, because "diversity."

(BTW, that's another problem with your post...you're mix the present and past tense, ignoring that our treatment of diversity of culture has changed over time.)

That's why first generation Korean and Chinese immigrants name their children Ann and Joe. They want them to fit in and they are willing to forgo their traditional heritage to make that happen.

Whereas black people who have lived in America for many generations name their children Toprameneesha and Quindavious (both actual names). They are demanding the right to resist mainstream culture and are, in fact, demanding that mainstream culture accomodate them.

Because Toprameneesha will definitely be the first to cry racism when her job application doesn't get selected for an interview (which it won't, research is clear on that).

Any time you see black people complain about someone "acting white" or express resentment over being asked to "act white," same thing.

This resistance of mainstream culture among that population is a recent phenomenon. Think about the notable figures throughout history: George Washington Carver, George Robert Carruthers, Hariett Tubman, Lewis Howard Latimere, Fredrick Douglas, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Jessie Owens, James McCune Smith, etc., etc., etc. None of them were named Jondovious or Keeraesha (again, actual names).

That all came about as a result of the Black Muslims telling black people to ditch their "slave names" and resist mainstream American culture in the 60s.

The problem with that is that that movement was a (self-avowed) separatist movement, but the population it was aimed at never separated. Malcolm X literally preached that black people in America should leave and form their own country. Of course, he also preached that black people should adopt a set of values that held them to an even higher moral standard than mainstream America. The fact that they did neither of those things makes the whole resisting mainstream culture part obsolete and self-destructive.