He is naïve.
I think he’s suggesting we apply Affirmative Action to children’s class room conduct.
I doubt he’s naive.....or at best he is willfully naive.
Deep down, I bet he knows the truth. I’d be willing to bet that even this fine professor gets nervous when he stumbles across a band of black youth...might involuntarily grab his wallet, switch to the other side of the street, lock his car door, etc. And I’d bet even more that he doesn’t do any of that when he runs into a group of white youth.