SO SEPARATE — BUT EQUAL — TO COIN A PHRASE: Oregon State University to Hold Segregated Workshops on Race.

Democratic National Committee member Bull Connor would certainly have approved. Presumably, the workshops would also be approved by former Obama mentor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who noted that “African-American children have a different way of learning” in his speech to the 2008 NAACP national convention, which then Time-Warner-CNN-HBO spokeswoman Soledad O’Brien dubbed “a home run.”