A Thought About “Inclusion.”

The nationwide conversations going on about “Inclusion” are really discussions about power and presence. Who gets to make choices and decisions, who do not — and why? “Inclusion” is also a discussion about “exclusion,” whether that circumstance is deliberate, happenstance, historic or systemic. One way or another, the abuses of inclusion/exclusion must end. Only when we confront this abuse fairly and honestly, with concerted determination on all sides to rectify or correct inequities, will we be able to properly address the issues of what is History, what is Culture, and how those new definitions might more properly reflect the truth that is, as opposed to a “truth” that is desired.

Inclusion is also about “access” because, in the end access is about the ability and inalienable right to define, and that is more than just a moral or legal or semantic argument because now we are going to the core of what is the full expression of citizenship in this or any country.