Difference Can Make A Difference Celebrate Diversity Difference Can Make A Difference By Bob McIlvaine Difference defines our world. Race, gender, and sexuality are everywhere. They bounce recklessly back and forth in the American consciousness, creating a fog of confusion in which we all get lost. In an ideal world, difference wouldn't matter. Yet our world is far from ideal, and so we must confront difference, regardless of how painful and complex this confrontation can be.
Difference is difficult, and is often used to oppress and exploit.
It is a labyrinth, though, in which we must necessarily get lost if we are to ever find our way to understanding. Dorothy faced a lot of trouble along the yellow brick road, but that didn't mean she stopped looking for the Wizard of Oz. Difference has been the curse of the non-white male for hundreds of years. If you were black, you were a slave. A woman, a servant of the house.