Blogging the Beltway: The Obama administration thinks so, issuing new guidelines supporting school diversity programs.

After watching the scene with Pete and Hollis a few times, I got the sense that Pete is just the sort of habitual line-stepper to corner the black elevator operator to ask him an unsophisticated, yet still probing question about the shopping preferences of “Negroes.”

Given his seeming reluctance to explicitly draw attention to the historic nature of his election as the first black president of the United States, Barack Obama’s Sunday commencement address at Notre Dame was notable for his mention not only his presidency as a racial milestone, but also for his acknowledgment of the 55th Anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education. It’s become fashionable in some black circles to downplay the significance of Brown...