Meanwhile, in San Francisco the militia of multiculturalism is working overtime to enforce intellectual mediocrity and strict adherence to a politically correct reading list. According to a Reuters news report, school board officials are considering a proposal requiring that up to 70 percent of school reading be books by “authors of color.” “The proposed change,” we are told, “would force high school teachers to select up to seven books by non-white authors for every three traditional classics by white writers.”

One board member—a twenty-four-year-old co-author of this “multicultural initiative”—declared that such a change was “long overdue” and that it would make school work more “relevant” to students in San Francisco’s public schools, where whites count for something less than 12 percent of the student population. Reflecting on the dismal scholastic record of African-Ameri ...

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