Lots of interesting reading in the M.Ted linked Supreme Court documents.

Essentially, the court didn't change anything -- its ruling was consistant with the Constitution AND previous rulings. It just found that -- IN THAT CASE -- the Seattle schools were doing it wrong.

One of the most telling and egregious errors made was in racial classifications that over-simplified it to "White and Non-white" or "Black and "Other"". What the #$%%^& ?! So the only meaningful distinctions to the Seattle-ites was whether a student was black?! ...in a country -- and especially a region of that country -- with more races than you could shake a very big stick at?!

If you were black, how could you be anything but offended?