The True and Honest Reason for the Diversity Effort in America:
Money and marketing.
When the Alabama bus boycott happened, they (policy makers) figured out just how much money black cleaning ladies, laborers and church people were bringing back into the system, simply by handing that nickel (or whatever it was at the time) bus fare to the driver.
Flash forward to the 1980's. How much money would be earned, if Mattel etc. designed black, Chinese and Latina dolls? Sure, black kids can play with a fleet of Lily-white Barbies, but the parents who buy them might be a little bit more enthusiastic and subsequently, eager to spend surplus income on dolls of color. With that, of course, accessories like Barbie horses, cars, playhouses etc.
Move into the 2000's ..... sure, Mexicans can drink Budweiser and Coors. But a lot MORE Mexicans will drink Corona and Tecate.
And what do these minorities do, when they spend more money on consumer items that are marketed just to them?
They add a second income to the house and subsequently spend more money on more consumer items, marketed just for them.
There are other, completely practical reasons, for inclusion. Let's say blacks have to have their special airlines because white ones won't allow them. That is a lot of lost business for American Airlines. And if blackfolks want to fly American Airlines to visit family stationed in Germany, they have to book with the competition, Lufthansa.
Also where would the US army be, if they had a "Negros to the left, Whites to the right" policy? How can we win wars overseas, when we can't win a racial one at home?
Not to be cynical, but I would throw my bet in, that a mainstream push for integration has very little to do with overcoming racial oppression, and more to do with what is practical and profitable.
ADDED:
This Mohammed cartoonist is totally off. We are not including slave blood blacks in society because we are afraid of having to pay something they are not entitled to, in the first place. We have an inclusive society because we want a stable one. Who wants to live in a state of fear, that rightfully angry, systematically oppressed minorities will burst out from behind their barbed wire fence and give us what we have coming to us?
If some blacks think we owe them reparations, they are allowed to believe that. Except a huge fallacy in their thinking, is that most Americans, of all colors, are not plantation owner descendents. Many were actually, poorer then freed blacks, others were living in Poland, Mexico, Ireland or the Philippines at the time of slavery and the Reconstruction ... also, hungrier than black chattel and freedmen were, so nonsense to all of this.