That’s exactly why race info should end. The purpose has been lost and is now manipulated. That manipulation just adds to the division and animosity.
Worse - it has created a two-tiered system where anyone who can check a box is suspect - and should be.
If social promotion and lowered expectations aren’t ended in education first, then continuing race-based quotas in hiring is the natural outcome. We can’t give unearned fake diplomas and degrees to uneducated young people then have them wander unemployable afterwards. The problem is they have the same pieces of paper as real students, and therefore they can fight legal battles about equal opportunity, pay, and promotions - because on paper they are the same (regardless of the reality on the ground). I’ve worked with people who honestly have an 8th grade education but they have Masters degrees; what do we do with them? Mentoring programs can only do so much, as you’re asking skilled/educated people to make up for years of educational/training neglect to maintain the facade of assimilation.
Higher education would oppose any real reform because the tokens are a revenue source for them; my college had a whole building dedicated to “remedial classes”, whereby certain minorities took high school-level classes without which white or Asian guys wouldn’t even be admitted. The “students” spent a year or two catching up, earning no college credits, and several dropped out after a while. Those that survived would start out in a real major but upon realizing how far behind they were other students in basic reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic, they’d just trade down to “soft” majors such as black studies - which could only earn them a paycheck as an aggrieved racial activist (hence the birth of “diversity departments” in large companies). Government, previously the largest employer of unqualified tokens, put legal pressure on big companies to do their share of hiring the fakes - and real workers must endure them.