Racial diversity is not a strength.

I would like to clarify that my opponent has broken the structure of the debate. The previous round was for initial arguments, not rebuttals. However, we will move along. Rebuttal: Addressing Diversity in Private LifeMy opponent points out that she has a very diverse social life. I do not dispute this as I have never met her. However, her own personal experience does not refute the polling that I provided. She would be a part of the minority of whites who have five or more close friends of another race.In response to me showing that children have an innate sense of race, which my opponent does not appear to dispute, she has said that “children being aware of race is much different than rejecting it.” I cannot say with any honesty that I understand what she is trying to say. If children are aware of race, then they would be foolish to reject it. It would be the equivalent of being aware that you had cancer yet rejecting it. Surely this is not what my opponent meant, so I must request for a clarification.Moving on to schools, my opponent quotes an article that cites a study. I visited the study and it concluded with this:“Taken as a whole, our results indicate that segregation matters for black relative achievement. [...] [O]ur tentative conclusion is that the neighborhood composition matters more than school composition.” [1]As can be seen, it is neighborhood composition that matters more than school composition, according to this study. I have to say I disagree with this finding. School composition has been shown time and time again to greatly impact student performance. The U.S. Department of Education released a study that revealed “Achievement for both Black and White students was lower in the highest Black student density schools than in the lowest density schools.” But what of socioeconomic status, which would play into neighborhood composition? The same study found that “The Black–White achievement gap was larger in the highest density schools than in the lowest density schools.” [2]So the achievement gap between black and white students, when accounting for socioeconomic status, is larger when the school has a higher black density. This seems to contradict what one would expect to find should diversity truly be a strength.In regard to my statement that white parents want their kids to go to white schools, my opponent said that “not all white people” do this. Of course they don’t. There are white people that go out of their way to send their kids to highly diverse schools. However, I am speaking for the majority of white parents. [3] Let’s explore some examples of what diversity can really mean.Los Angeles, California is perhaps the most racially diverse city in the United States. The demographics read like this: 49% Hispanic 28% White 11% Asian 9% Black 3% Other I could quite literally sit here all day showing example after example of racial violence in America’s most diverse city. This violence often enough does not include whites. It is most standard for racial violence in L.A. to be between blacks and Hispanics. [4] [5] [6] [7] Schools are not immune to this racial violence despite their high levels of diversity:“Up to 600 Black and Latino students were involved in racially tinged violence at the Locke High School in South Los Angeles. The riot was described as the worst violence many of the faculty had ever seen in a high school plagued with violence and what the L.A. authorities are euphemistically calling ‘tagging crews.’ It took 60 officers, some in riot gear, to restore order and only four arrests were made.” [8]It is genuinely difficult for me to imagine a 600 person fight when my high school did not even have 600 students in it! Now there is a phenomenon known as “re-segregation.” This is in reference to the fact that whites are not moving into integrated neighborhoods. Michael Bader from American University said the following in regard to his study on the issue:“For example, if a neighborhood is all white in 1980 and African-Americans begin to move into that neighborhood, those white families already there aren’t fleeing. But other whites will more than likely not move into that neighborhood as well. So in time the neighborhood will become all black. It will re-segregate.” [9]Who can blame the whites for making such sound decisions? My opponent seems to be a bit confused as to where they stand on the issues. They quote an article that not only verifies what I have been saying this whole time, but it also contradicts her own position. She quotes an article that says:“This notion is a popular one: that people like to live among their own. But it's highly misleading, because research has shown that it is far more true for white Americans than for black Americans.” Yet this has been my position from the very beginning. Whites do not desire to live among non-whites. This is not really a controversial point. And while blacks may not necessarily be as exclusive, they most certainly express in group preferences in various other ways. [10] [11] It is a cold reality that whites generally like to live among themselves. Ultimately, other races may not have an issue when it comes to living in the same neighborhoods as whites, but they still do not intermarry or form close relationships with them. My opponent raises a point that I wanted to bring up in my initial argument but did not have enough room. She said that “having people from different backgrounds and cultures strengthen us through having different perspectives [and] different [worldviews].” This is only partially true. Acquired diversity (i.e., traits gained from experience) is a strength. Inherent diversity (i.e., race) is not a strength.Rebuttal: Addressing Public LifeMy opponent attempts to discredit my source without actually addressing anything in it. I do not particularly care who writes a study so long as the study is accurate. She would have to show that there are inaccuracies in the study in order to convince anyone that it should be rejected.My opponent seems to be conflating race and culture. This is not at all accurate. There are multiple culture groups within one race. For example, the white race includes German, French, and various other cultures. So it is not a matter of being “scared to embrace other cultures.” It is a race issue. And I am not suggesting that one race is better than another. I agree that such a mentality is not a strength. She also seems to be confused by the quote regarding California prisons. The prisons were segregated because of the violence that occurred by integration. The “us vs them” already existed prior to the segregation of inmates. My opponent then accuses me of leaving information out of my quote. This is simply not true. Is there truly little evidence that segregation works in prisons? Black mothers appear to believe it works:“Tuesday, half a dozen mothers of inmates housed in Los Angeles County's Castaic jails spoke out against what they say are dangerous conditions that leave African American inmates vulnerable to attack. The women talked of their sons as though they were still boys and detailed their suffering in emotion-choked voices. With the support of community activists, they urged authorities to keep inmates segregated, saying that was the only way to keep their sons safe in a racially polarized environment in which African Americans are outnumbered.” [12] Black prisoners at Pitchess Detention Center, also in Los Angeles, sued the Sheriff’s Department for not segregating the prison. “According to the class-action suit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court, sheriff's deputies subjected black inmates to life-threatening situations by not ensuring the dorms at Pitchess were racially balanced and failing to search for weapons.” [13]American Renaissance magazine wrote a magnificent piece citing example after example of prison violence directly caused by lack of segregation. [14]Rebuttal: Diversity in BusinessMy opponent argues that diversity in the workplace strengthens an industry. The reality is that while diversity can drive creativity and innovation, it comes at a high cost. Roy Chua of Harvard Business School concluded with the following in his study:“Individual and organizational success in the 21st century depends on the ability to think creatively in a global setting. Recent research has affirmed the positive effects of exposure to multiple cultures on creativity. But intercultural disharmony in the workplace and societies at large are inevitable, and most is not directly under individuals control. This research represents an important step toward understanding how a disharmonious multicultural social environment can undermine individuals’ creativity.” [15]Sources:[1] https://www.nber.org...[2] https://nces.ed.gov...[3] https://journalistsresource.org...[4] http://www.npr.org...[5] https://www.splcenter.org...[6] https://www.splcenter.org...[7] http://www.foxnews.com...[8] http://www.red-alerts.com...[9] http://www.pbs.org...[10] http://www.cbsnews.com...[11] http://rhymeswithright.mu.nu...[12] http://articles.latimes.com...[13] http://articles.latimes.com...[14] https://www.amren.com...[15] http://ink.library.smu.edu.sg...