A dilemma Barack Obama is unlikely to address

In an appearance on ABC’s This Week program, Barack Obama talked about race-based preferences in college and graduate school admissions. Obama seemed to prefer basing admissions on the extent to which an applicant has been “disadvantaged” rather than purely on race. He said, for example that when his two young daughters apply to college, they

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