A professor of drama at Arizona State University was denied tenure because of his insistence on teaching the works of William Shakespeare. Most people are quick to accept this new code and even applaud it. No, it's not. Many people have a superficial view of racism. They see it merely as the belief that one race is superior to another.
Racism is more than that.
It is a fundamental, and fundamentally wrong, view of human nature. Racism is the notion that one's race determines one's identity. It is the belief that one's beliefs, one's values and one's character are not determined by the independent judgement of one's mind, but by one's anatomy or blood. The scourge of multiculturalism, long a staple of American university life, is now casting its ominous shadow over Canadian higher education and it seems the University of Toronto is ground zero. Rather than acknowldege his own shortcomings and vow to work harder in future, he denied personal responsibility and attributed his failure to racism.