Bill Kristol is a jerk and hates multiculturalism

If you read this blog, you know I'm not a big Bill Kristol fan. However, I'm usually content to let him be. But today's New York Times column was something else:

Obama has selected Yale’s Elizabeth Alexander to compose and read a poem. I still remember watching Maya Angelou read “On the Pulse of Morning” at Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993 — and thinking that American culture really was in a state of irreversible decline, as she indulged in that multicultural cataloguing of “the Asian, the Hispanic, the Jew,/ The African and Native American, the Sioux, / The Catholic, the Muslim, the French, the Greek,/ The Irish, the Rabbi, the Priest, the Sheikh,/ The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher,/ The privileged, the homeless, the teacher.”

Huh? Is he actually saying that multiculturalism helped American culture go into "a state of irreversible decline?"

This is, of course, moronic. America's greatest asset, in my humble opinion, is its idealism. The Bill of Rights says that people of any race, religion or creed can live in this country without government intervention. This mixing of cultures has created a culture that is diverse and continually changing, and it is far more interesting to me than the homogeneity of an all-white European nation, for example.

Kristol's comments are at the very least in bad taste, and I think could be construed as racist. It's clear to me he's showing his preference for a whiter, less diverse America.