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Sometimes, it seems like the whole world is a high school and we’re all just trying to stay in style.
I mean that, not regarding fashion, but activities and ideas.
One item rising in popularity: the socially-aware “land acknowledgement.”
Last month, Cornell University joined the current craze.
As stated by The Cornell Daily Sun, at CU’s Spring 2021 commencement ceremony, announcers read a statement recognizing “the university’s place on the traditional homeland of the Gayogo̱ hó꞉nǫ’ (pronounced Guy-yo-KO-no), or Cayuga Nation.”
Here’s the official acknowledgement, as laid out on the institution’s website:
Unity, generally, is considered virtuous.
Yet, so far as I can tell, the Powers That Be are increasingly interested in emphasizing our differences.
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Amid the new morality: “whiteness.”
We’re being told it’s something to be stamped out.
That may very well be correct if the term represents dastardly deeds.
But what’s the impact of attaching it wholly and exclusively to a race?
If I had to guess, I’d say not unity.