28 August—Sixty years ago today—if you’re wearing mittens, that makes it 1963—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. told an enthusiastic throng in front of the Lincoln Memorial, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream.”

One wonders, then, how Dr. King would feel about affirmative action, whereby people are judged by the color of their skin rather than by the content of their character . . .