Is Race a Factor in the Sale of the Washington Nationals?

Since the 2001 sale of the Montreal Expos to the other 29 MLB owners, the franchise has been under the control of the league. Not coincidentally, as pointed out in this Washington Post sports column, MLB chose to hire two competent minorities to operate the team, a Latino and an African-American in general manager Omar Minaya and manager Frank Robinson, respectively. Since then, MLB moved the club from Montreal to Washington, DC in 2004 and renamed them the Nationals in an effort to penetrate a superior baseball market and with the intention of eventually selling them and turning a profit.

Two years later, the Nationals remain under the control of MLB in spite of the fact that a lease is firmly in place for a new stadium, something commissioner Bud Selig claimed was mandatory before the team could be sold. Yet, several weeks after the fact, a decision has not been made largely because, as recent reports claim, frontrunner Ted Lerner's bidding group does not have a sufficient minority presence. Accordingly, similar reports have also stated that groups are "scrambling" to find and/or supplement their minority partners as the sale nears its conclusion.

Is there something wrong with "scrambling" to add minorities just for the sake of adding minorities?

How should MLB address the sale of the Nationals and the need for further integration of minority stakeholders?

How should the ownership groups seek to add minority partners?

What, if any, legal issues pertain to these circumstances?