Q. As New York State education commissioner, you have caught a lot of heat for recommending that we emphasize multiculturalism in American history.
A. The heat doesn't surprise me. There is probably no more volatile subject in American political life than race. That doesn't make it any less important that we find the constructive, moderate, middle position on the matter.
Q. What exactly is that position?
A. My goal is that all of us in this society come to know more about one another, partly to live better with one another than we are sometimes now doing. There is no inconsistency...
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