A reader refers us to this excellent debate over racial school assignments between Roger Clegg, president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, and Joseph Olchefske, Superintendent of Seattle’s public schools from 1998 to 2003.
Read the whole thing. Meanwhile, my referrer was particularly struck, as am I, by one of Clegg’s points that is indeed interesting:
… note that, in these cases, Seattle decided that the two relevant groups were “white” and “nonwhite,” while Louisville decided that the two groups were “black” and “nonblack,” so Asians, Hispanics, Native Americans, Arab Americans, etc. were treated as honorary blacks in Seattle but honorary whites in Louisville).
UPDATE [11 Jan.]
This debate has been continuing all week. Thus, if you haven’t checked it out in the past day or so you need to go back and read the latest installments. Roger Clegg, not surprisingly, is doing a masterful job.
