Whenever you hear a politician use the word “diversity” you can usually assume that some kind of dissembling is taking place. The politician hopes you will conclude that he is performing some noble act of inclusiveness. But normally the term “diversity” is used to create a diversion — to make political pandering appear to be “statesmanship.” Let me give you a recent example of this phenomenon. Mark Sanford, South Carolina’s newly elected Governor, selected The Reverend Joseph Darby, senior pastor of Morris Brown AME Church in Charleston, to deliver the invocation at his recent inauguration. It was quite an honor … Continue reading Dissing Maurice