There's also the issue of "corrective" quotas creating new forms of discrimination (against asian Americans, for example: http://www.wsj.com/articles/asian-american-organizations-see... ). I think targeted outreach and blind evaluation of applications are less prone to result in new problems.
Is it considered a new form of discrimination and not the desire effect because it is Asians and not Caucasians who suffer the greatest penalty? If that is the case, that alone tells you all you need to know about if this process is racist or not.