Washington Post - Amina Luqman: In the land of make-believe, racial diversity is a fantasy, Harry Potter, etc. (This article will give Multicultural Marxist readers their delicious White-guilt fix for the day. They can revel in the fact that other Whites do not feel appropriately guilty, all the while living in the same White neighborhoods as conservatives. Think how happy Blacks, Hispanics and others will be someday when Europeans have formed their own nations, after which people of color will be free to create their very own film industry, top-notch universities, advanced medical centers, high rises, ocean liners, opera houses, cyclotrons, space programs, without being held back by racism!)

In the land of make-believe, racial diversity is a fantasy

For months, night after night, my husband has read the Harry Potter series to our 6-year-old son. After finishing each book, they watch the corresponding movie, and they’re now on Book 4, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.” Suffice it to say, our son is a big fan. So it was no surprise when he considered dressing up as Harry for Halloween. But our hearts sank when he quickly added, in a matter-of-fact tone of disappointment, “But I’m not tan. I’m brown.”

Tan and brown are terms for white and black that my son picked up at his progressive school; they’re seen as less political and more precise, and I guess they take some of the sting off. But the words don’t change the long-standing reality: In the United States, children’s fantasies are still largely imagined in white. ...

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