Anthropologist Glynn Custred champions Proposition 209 in California
Mr. Custred, 82, attributes the success in both ballot fights to his love of diversity. “I’m an anthropologist; I love talking to different people and diverse audiences,” he said. Of course, in common academic and political jargon, “diversity” refers to attributes outside the mind and does not mean what Mr. Custred means, which is “people of different outlooks.” That difference, in Mr. Custred‘s view, also goes a long way to explaining how, in a time where the U.S. seems obsessed with race, a ballot initiative designed to favor Black Americans went down to defeat. Not everybod...
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