Monday afternoon, the White House posted on its website a news story on an imminent executive order on historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), timed to correspond with the end of Black History Month and the Washington visit of many of the schools’ presidents. Such an order might be fine, but it also might not be, and it is disturbing that the White House website chose to excerpt part of the article that discusses the desire of some to set numerical, percentage goals here for the federal government’s contracting and other funding. You can try to put lipstick on this pig, but these would be racial quotas. Here’s hoping the Trump administration will just say no.