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American society should be reordered. Let people of different races go their separate ways if that’s what they want. That may seem like a sharp U-turn but it’s not. Look at where people already live, where they go to church, whom they marry, who their close friends are.
Americans don’t fill their lives with the “diversity” we’re supposed to be so proud of. Not even the most fervent egalitarians take the most basic integrationist step available to anyone: buy a house and live in a black neighborhood.
America should stop fighting human nature. We should recognize the normal, healthy desires of many citizens to live in a way that is culturally and racially coherent.
Freedom of association is a basic freedom. For some, it means integration, but there should be no moral or legal obstacles to those for whom it means separation. And if separation extends to cities, counties, states, or regions, there should be no obstacles to that, either.
Ask yourself: What’s the point of a mixed-race society? Would you build one if you were starting from scratch? What are the advantages? Seriously. Is diversity so inherently marvelous that we should outlaw the very idea of people going their own way? No. People outlaw the idea because homogeneity is marvelous and people want it, but we’ve been on the road to nowhere for so long, we don’t dare turn back.
One of the hardest things a person or a group or a nation can do is admit that a long-standing policy — one we’re supposed to cherish — has failed. We must have the courage to admit we failed.
You’ll recall that the Conservative Book Club called my book “painful.” What I’m proposing isn’t painful. It’s the opposite of painful. It should be an immense relief to realize that centuries of policies failed because the goal was futile. America has been in a 400-year shot-gun marriage full of tension, conflict, resentment, delusion, and heartache. What a relief when it ends.
It’s time for a new beginning, for attainable goals that will let individuals and groups freely seek their own destinies.
