The OmbudsGod has this link to a Washington Times article about a Harvard professor whose mission is to "abolish the white race." By this, Noel Ignatiev means that the corporate cultural consciousness of "whiteness" needs to be eradicated from the minds of whites. There are really only two problems with this agenda. First, insofar as I know from personal experience, there is no such "white" corporate mind. People tend to divide their personal map of the social world in ways that are important to them. Some people divide the world up by religion or ethnicity or sexual orientation or membership in clubs. The only people who can be counted up consistently to divide the world up racially are either lunatic white supremacists and some not insignificant percentage of the African-American population for whom the racial division may in fact be significant. [In fact the best way to break down racial divisions is to accentuate the importance of trans-racial identities such as religion or service clubs.]

The second problem is the diversion of resources. It seems to me that the quickest way to ensure that a culture or people not get out of its historical box is to obsess on the past. There should be a real concern that every talented mind drawn into some cloud-cookoo land project like this one, means that there is one less talented person making a contribution to the community, be it through business or science or the construction of community infrastructure.