The Idea of History Itself

“Our current obsesssion with multiculturalism is a prime example of this. This obsession is not an educated desire to ‘modify the emphasis,’ gently reminding us that the Chinese had a great civilization while our Anglo ancestors were still killing their meat with rocks. If the desire of the multiculturalists were simply a well-taken insistence that white people are not the only people in history who ever did anything, there would be no argument. But modern ‘multiculturalism’ is relativistic and thus is not an attack on ‘white history.’ It is an attack on the very idea of objective history itself” (Black and Tan, pp. 71-72).