...and what has your friend, who's clearly been wronged by Affirmative Discrimination done about it?
At some point, the victims portrayed as recipients need to start filing lawsuits. They're decades overdue.
He has filed several amicus briefs with the US Supreme Court, parts of one ended up in the Opinion of the Court. (Sorry, won’t specify. It’s a respect for privacy thing.) But mostly he just works his butt off and gets well paid for doing so.