[esrauch]

Assuming that's a genuine question, the idea is that otherwise we still have a systemic problem where (for example) the overt racism which denied opportunities to black Americans historically is still having ongoing impact because whether your parents went to college has a huge impact on whether you do (and if you succeed).

The idea is that we want a society where there's no racial disadvantage, and if you just ignore race entirely that's accepting the ongoing disadvantages that still measurably exist due to the overt racism that was 1-2 generations ago.

Specific implementions are obviously extremely complex and lead to bad outcomes like the article here, but it seems like sound logic that "doing nothing" is not optimal for getting to an equal society within a couple more generations.

[josefx]

Battling systemic racism with more systemic racism. I guess as someone who doesn't have systemic racism as normal part of my life I am not qualified to describe just how fucking moronic that sounds. However I can say that the students that are actively disadvantaged against now probably deserve it as much as the students that where disadvantaged 20 to 50 years ago. Get everyone involved a racist of the year award for keeping the tradition alive and well.

[johan12345]

see my answer at eejjjj82 below