Somewhat true, and sad. But my white son says that when he was in academia, research appointments were far easier to obtain if you weren’t a white heterosexual male. PC has gone wild. That’s fact, too, and involves judgement by color.
You see they like to be profiled when it comes to bennies but not when it comes to responsibility.
When I was in school (20 years ago) big accounting firms would recruit from the tiny National Association of Black Accountants chapter instead of the larger, diverse Accounting Society they had in the past.
Giving them unearned degrees and jobs for which they aren’t qualified hasn’t done a thing to improve their lots in life; fifty years from now we can have another Ferguson incident and reaction (because 50 years of freebies and affirmative action have bought us nothing).