1.   The increasing racial diversity of the US is reflected in the latest census statistics.

2.   And as a heavily white group, they need a bit of racial diversity, too.

3.   And no mainstream politician is eager to explain the virtues of racial diversity to parents of white applicants whose places are taken by nonwhites with lower test scores.

4.   And even those students who did not endorse affirmative action, he said, acknowledged that racial diversity improved their educational experience.

5.   And everyone would be white, except for one kid of color written in to make its defensive case for racial diversity.

6.   As the league moves forward with expansion plans, racial diversity should be considered a plus.

7.   A county and state commission must then approve the plan before allowing it on the ballot, and any division must satisfy a law requiring racial diversity.

8.   Aaron Gray, Denver school board president, says his board preferred racial diversity in schools and wanted to continue busing students.

9.   But he noted that the Boston School Department and other districts use racial diversity as their goal, yet never define the term.

10.   But the board kept Williams to promote racial diversity.