No, that’s not another name for Mexican restaurants — it’s bureaucratese for colleges and universities with lots of Latino students. And guess what?: The president has just proclaimed this to be “National Hispanic-Serving Institutions Week”!

So, my question is, which of the following sentences in the president’s proclamation is sillier?:

(a) “Roughly one-quarter of students in our Nation’s public schools today are Hispanic, yet less than one-fifth of Hispanics in the United States have a college degree.”

(b) “By working to provide many Hispanics with the chance they deserve to get a higher education, HSIs embody this truth and pull the country we all call home a little closer to its founding ideals: that all 2 (sic) of us are created equal and all of us should have the chance to make of our lives what we will.”

It’s a tough choice, I know.

Answer (a) is tempting because it embodies a complete non sequitur and, if it did not, the disparity between one-fourth and one-fifth is not exactly a chasm. But there’s a lot to like about answer (b), too: All 2 (sic) of us are created equal (those other people, not so much).