"Throughout the twentieth century many have taken up the fight against racial discrimination and oppression, and demanded equality. Multiculturalism is different. Its central thesis is not the overcoming of inequality, but the accomodation of inequality. Multiculturalism takes difference, not equality as its starting point (and its conclusion)."
Nicely put. And it reflects well how it plays out at the class level. Applied to the professional middle class, multicult. refers to the token black prof, administrator, principal, mayor, etc. Applied to the poor, it means that it's OK to destroy existing inner city schools and then rebuild them around test-drilling-giving privatized "education" because "those people" need discipline and the heavy hand of the authoritative (and otherwise missing) father.
Suburban and private schools don't need to be built around tests because "those kids" already have basic skills and would not respond well to anything except developing their inner selves in a nurturing environment.
joanna