Daily Kos asserts that the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling against race-based school placement “severely curbed local efforts to promote racial diversity.” The column — entitled “Segregation Now, Segregation Forever?” — alludes to an apocryphal conservative attempt to overturn Brown v. Board, the landmark civil rights case that ended segregation.

After all, the racial quotas of the civil rights era can do nothing but improve the lives of “underrepresented minorities.” Nikita Rau might disagree:

Under those quotas – which originally were intended to boost minority enrollment – 60 percent of Mark Twain’s student body is set aside for white students, while 40 percent is set aside for minorities…When Nikita recently applied to Mark Twain, she took an admission test geared toward music students and scored a 79…Officials told the Raus that because Nikita is classified as a minority, she would need to score at least 84.4 to be accepted, while white students needed to score 77 or more.