Ramesh: You are of course right. I was only making the point, clumsily perhaps, that ruling against de jure segregation, while good and necessary, left us with a depressing amount of de facto segregation. And that we are far less keen to talk about (because we really have no clue what to do about) the de facto, than the de jure. (And the other point that major newspapers have the utmost difficulty reporting racial conflicts–which is plainly what the larger Manhattan Beach brouhaha is–as racial conflicts. The Post article doesn’t mention race. You have to go digging. Which is what I did. Why not just tell us what’s going on?)