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Proportional Race

2blowhards has an interesting post about proportional racial representation. The key questions:

1) Why should we expect, always and everywhere, proportional racial representation? How nuts are we? 2) Shouldn't we be more cautious about turning to the "racism" explanation than we often are? And 3) Don't we have to give these things some time, after all?

He makes a good argument for why we shouldn't expect proportional representation quite yet due both to reasons of self-selection and the inherent strengths and weaknesses of various cultures. Obviously the disproportionality that can be attributed to economic or educational disparities would be nice to eradicate, but I'm not so sure about when it derives from cultural differences. Do we really want every race or culture in America to be that homogenous?

UPDATE: Fixed to actually contain a link to the post.