[garbagecoder]

My minority view is that the post-war Amendments are about slavery not diversity and that the only non-color blind provisions in it relate to remediating the effects of slavery, so it really should only apply to descendants of slaves. This was politically unacceptable for most of the time since the Civil War so the pretext of diversity was created, or it was treated as a commercial issue in the case of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

We got tied into knots trying to find away around it and it just hasn't worked as intended.