“Diversity is our strength,” is a mantra heard time and time again from the mouths of lawmakers, academics, pundits and the like. It has become so cliché that it has almost lost its meaning in the minds of most people. What exactly is it that is meant by “diversity?”

“Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Limbaugh, why aren’t you talking about Rob Porter and President Trump and abused women, huh? Huh? Why aren’t you talking?” You think I’m gonna get ensnared, you think I’m gonna get trapped in another one of these phony narratives creating a bunch of stuff that didn’t happen? I’m not gonna get caught in that. And we don’t do that here, folks. We don’t get captured by conventional wisdom. We avoid it. We run from it.

In April 2017, The Times of India reported that Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, the spiritual global leader of a Shia Muslim sect called the Dawoodi Bohras, reaffirmed the mandate of female genital mutilation (katna) in a sermon carried over a livestream and repeated in a messaging app.

Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Shelby Steele analyzes contemporary race relations in the United States.