K-Lo’s “Segregation 2006?” posting this afternoon is very interesting, and another example of the “you just can’t win” phenomenon in racial politics. If schools are not racially balanced enough, then that’s racist and we have to mandate racial balance. But if there is too much integration, then we have to step in and mandate separation so that each racial minority group can control its own destiny. (Another example is the war on drugs: Enforce antidrug laws, and it’s a racist war on young black men; don’t enforce them, and that’s a racist abandonment of the inner cities. Zero tolerance policies in schools are racist, but if there is a lack of order in our inner-city schools, that proves that the system is racist, too. The list is endless.)