American Diversity

We no longer are a diverse nation.  Once we were.  Once We Were Warriors, as the New Zealand-based novel and film depicted.  Is it possible war and diversity are related?  Past President Bill Clinton harmed the world in many ways.  Not only did his passing of the North American Free Trade Alliance contribute to the collapse of the Mexican peso, auctioning formerly dangerous frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum largely has caused global warming.  No one acknowledges, and the polar ice caps continue to melt at an alarming rate.  Is it possible the country is considering another Clinton to inhabit our White House?  I shudder at the thought.  The Clintons are good at auctions.  They auctioned Bill's speaking fees for possible influence with the Obama Administration.  Like the rest of America all of us are gullible enough to believe that something good will come of their rhetoric.  Dinners in the White House?  Blow jobs underneath the Presidential desk?  Monica Lewinsky on the front page of our tabloids for over a year?  The country does not need this in spite of the glory of America's first woman president.  Bill's one success, the penning of the Dayton Accords, sits unnoticed.  With the tribal civil war in the Middle East, Bill's one success, the penning of the Dayton Accords, sits unnoticed.  Do we have that to which to look forward?  Is is possible Bill can repeat his one major achievement of his American Presidency and solve issues in Syria and Afghanistan?  Certainly Mrs. Clinton did nothing during her tenure as Secretary of State to help.  She was busy auctioning her husband's speeches for possible influence with the Obama Administration.  (the sound of chuckling can be heard in the Clinton household.)  When Bill was in the White House multiculturalism was in the forefront of American society, because Hillary had written a book.  It had good ideas, and diversity and racism were expanding and contracting.  This was before George W.'s "Globalization," which has abandoned the America populace in favor of cheap labor.  If we don't invest in ourselves, who will the nation become?  It all ready has become that.  We no longer are a nation of shared ideals.  We are a nation of slaves at the mercy of our own medical establishment.  Diversity is not an issue, at least until another unarmed black teenager is murdered by an overzealous police officer.  America no longer is diverse.  The artistic ideals that have have championed diversity are dead.  Jazz is dead.  Art is dead.  Art is dead, because pop culture does not have the guts, stamina, or heart for good.  Art does not care about monetary gain.  It cares about the sustenance of a people.  Diversity contributes greatly to the depth of art, because many cultures are involved.  Plurality.  We are not a plural nation anymore.  Slowly technology and its purveyors have staked out the same niche as Yuppies in the l980's.  They are wealthy and exclusive, and art or diversity has nothing to do with their success.  Art does not care about money.  Nothing can be more symbolic of this stagnation in America than popular music.  Gone are Sly and the Family Stone, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and the rest.  Alarmingly our major contributors to diversity and thus art are dying one at a time.  Pat Conroy, author of groundbreaking treatises on race in the American South, is dead.  There is no one to replace them.  Let us hope the corrupt hand of Big Brother will see fit to include them in our history.  We are not diverse.  We do not embrace other cultures.  We are exclusionary.  We are rich.  We are elite, not unlike America always has been.  During other decades we were more successful at disguising it.