In a sad twist of irony, crowds gathered on Martin Luther King Boulevard in Fresno, California last week to stage a show of racist intolerance more reminiscent of former Democratic Governor George Wallace than the acclaimed civil rights leader. The ugly and divisive scene taints the excitement surrounding the opening of Rutherford B. Gaston Middle School, the first new school opening in decades in the cities crowded southwest sector. The mob that gathered was there to protest the hiring of a white male teacher at a school whose student body will be predominately minority. "We didn't fight for a white...