Durham’s black community is rallying to save Hayti, the Jim Crow-era black business district, by fighting development in the area. Years ago, when the replacement for Hillside High School was being built, black leaders demanded that Hillside’s past as Durham’s black high school be enshrined — in name and in racial composition — in the new place. It’s the same with NC Central University. When the number of white students began growing there in the 1990s there were complaints that NCCU’s character as an HBCU (historically black college or university) was in peril. It’s almost as it Durham’s black leadership longs for the days of segregation. It’s one thing to remember the past. It’s another to make a fetish of it. I say let’s move on.