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...example, in 1954 the Supreme Court decided a set of cases challenging racial segregation of schools. Brown v. Board of Education changed the lives of millions, beginning with the students in the affected school districts and radiating throughout the country. Compare that with the race-and-schools cases decided by the Roberts court last term, which affected at most a few hundred students...
...pages to deliver its ruling. The Roberts Court devoted 178 pages, in five separate opinions, to its narrow resolution of the smaller questions. And what did the Justices say in all those pages? Little, if anything, new. As the Rehnquist Court held in 2003, schools may not use simple racial classifications as the determining factor for admitting students. Administrators in Seattle and Jefferson County were advised to find more nuanced ways to achieve diversity...
...From these prominent organizations we can sense that the data publicized by the admissions office is very opaque—while it gives a racial breakdown, it reveals nothing about ethnicity, self-identification, or dynamics between ethnicities. The question, of course, is whether a painstakingly detailed ethnic breakdown is relevant. After all, Caucasians come from all over Europe, and we usually don’t distinguish Irish from Scot from Belgian. The circumstance that makes Asian American diversity important, however, is that this group is particularly new to the country; Asians only first began arriving in the late nineteenth century...
...Field of Broken Dreams" [Sept. 24]. There are people who will never be satisfied despite massive reform within our country. I am sure I speak for most white South Africans when I say we are more than pleased to have put apartheid behind us and we would never support racial discrimination of that sort in our lifetime. The suggestion that a white élite school system has kept potential black players off the national team is ludicrous. If you travel to any corner of this magnificent country, you are hard-pressed not to stumble across a bare-bones soccer field...
...doesn't guide you, how about self-interest? Take abortion off the table, warns Richard Land, the Southern Baptists' political point man, and "what you do is give the Democrats a license to go hunting for Evangelical votes on other things they care about--on climate change, economic justice, racial reconciliation." Green's research suggests that this risk is real. It's much harder for the GOP to mobilize Christian conservative voters, he says, if abortion is not part of the debate...