"Integration," as a paradigm for progress in American culture, has failed. Black communities, families, schools, businesses, jobs, individuals, and churches, quake and disintegrate under its incessantly destructive ravages, while crime, disease, and imprisonment surge.
A new and better format, paradigm for, economic advancement, social progression, and political cohesion is needed. "Syncretism" is needed, as it is a positive force, while integration is a negative force.
In syncretism, no one's élan or essence, nor institutions, are destroyed; instead, they remain intact and evolve, even as a more durable national homeostasis emerges. Diverse pluralities meld and combine what is best within each to form an even greater, national, entirety of the whole, which is sustainable, viable and honorable.
A new and better format, paradigm for, economic advancement, social progression, and political cohesion is needed. "Syncretism" is needed, as it is a positive force, while integration is a negative force.
In syncretism, no one's élan or essence, nor institutions, are destroyed; instead, they remain intact and evolve, even as a more durable national homeostasis emerges. Diverse pluralities meld and combine what is best within each to form an even greater, national, entirety of the whole, which is sustainable, viable and honorable.
