Schizo

During the 1980s, I remember the massive protests by black US college students against the South African Apartheid regime. It struck me as absurd that they were protesting government-sanctioned race segregation yet practiced self-imposed racial segregation: these black students were also demanding "Black Dorms", "Blacks-only" fraternities and sororities, etc.

It also struck me that no one noticed this very odd (and I'd add) schizophrenic ideology--not quite true actually, Shelby Steele did. Now comes another such cognitive disconnect in the upcoming Survivor TV show season debacle. Apparently, some unter-genius at CBS decided it would be so much fun to create "tribes" (irony alert!) along racial lines (Hispanic, White, Black, Asian) and have them compete against each other. I think it's amazing that such an idea actually got off the ground and out of that conference room because as we all know, Race doesn't actually exist in America (snort!).

Given that, here comes (h/t: Michelle Malkin) a report by the New York Post that:

Yesterday, members of the council's Black, Latino, and Asian Caucus (BLAC) met with the press to complain about - of all things - classifying individuals by race and/or ethnic origins.

Things that make you go hmmm. ... These things will continue to happen unless and until we are truly, in the words of Martin Luther King, Jr, a colorblind society.