What year is it again?

Yesterday a vote was passed to separate Omaha schools into "White, African American, and Hispanic" school districts. Un-freakin-believable. For all the drama we have faced over the past year with the whole "one city, one school district", this seems like a million steps back. What happened to everyone wanting to be unified no matter where in town you lived or how wealthy/poor you were? This seems like total other end of the spectrum. There was an article on CNN.com today that I found really interesting Schools It talks about currently predominantly minority schools that are currently getting screwed when it comes to funding/good teachers. Supposedly this new way of dividing up schools will give the minorities more control over their funding, ect, but it seems to me like its just going to cause problems outside of schools. It seems like its going to build up a lot of close minded people. Already in the world there are so many people that use stereotypes to generalize all ethnic backgrounds and cultures. How are we suppose to fight those and bring our children up to be open minded of accepting all people when we're saying that people "different" from them are not good enough or are too good to go to school with them? A basic common factor? There has to be a better answer to this situation and I certainly hope the find it before this ruling goes into effect in two years.