Time to Set Aside Set-Asides?: With the Civil-Rights Race Won, our Government Should Embrace Colorblindness
Barack Obama's inauguration is "a huge civil rights moment." So said the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who added that Obama "has run the last lap of a 54-year race for civil rights." As auguration Day approached, Obama himself discussed with the Washington Post "how his racial identity can unify and transform the country." The Post quotes him thus:There is an entire generation that will grow up taking for granted that the highest office in the land is filled by an African American. I mean, that's a radical thing. It changes how black children look at themselves. I...