Divided court rejects school diversity plans - CNN.com
"A conservative majority led by Chief Justice John Roberts said other means besides race considerations should be used to achieve diversity in schools."
What kind of diversity? Racial diversity, of course. ... but you can't use race to create racial diversity - you have to use some stand in because otherwise people who are used to their privilege will be upset that you're taking it away from them.
...yes, it's unclear if you're stupid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_hypothesis
"Those who favor ignoring race as an explicit administrative matter, in the hope that it will cease to exist as a social concept, ignore the weight of a vast body of sociological research that shows that racial hierarchies are embedded in the routine practices of social groups and institutions." - The American Sociological Association
We can't commit to actually fixing the problem so we pretend it goes away, then it persists way longer than it should. The effects of slavery and segregation are still around because we used half-assed ways of fixing them and then pretended it was all ok.
Indeed.