NO PEACEFUL PLURALITIES
Ralph David Abernathy told how even the squatter camp called Resurrection City, erected on the Washington D.C. mall during the Poor People’s March of 1968, failed to achieve a peaceful plurality. African- Americans and Hispanics wanted separate neighborhoods in the village. The same holds true for McLuhan’s global village. Like children fighting in the back seat of the family car, we find that the quarters (even global ones) grow more compact, the more we insist on drawing territorial lines and forbidding each other to cross them. From The Christian Century, September 9-16, 1992, pg. 810, author, Randall K. Bush
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