The board of aldermen there appointed Susan Tomlinson, who is white, to fill one of the five seats on the local school district’s board of trustees. The appointment lasted a day as Mayor Parker Wiseman, an up-and-coming Democrat who is also white, vetoed the appointment last week based on the race of the candidate. His veto letter made no bones about it: With this appointment, he said, the board would be 80 percent white in a school district that is only 32 percent white, and that’s just not acceptable, diversity-wise, regardless of Ms. Tomlinson’s qualifications. Read all about it here.