A fair point. However, there are many problematic issues with this approach. For example, if you follow with this plan, when will you stop? I can image than in 100 years, people who are non-white are still given preferential treatment for historical reasons. Who will dare to take it away from them and what arguments will you use?
Instead of following in this direction, where financial issues are involved, wouldn't it make more sense to discriminate based on income, not skin color? And in a way that actually helps both the person and the society, i.e. not "he got mediocre grades but let's push him into university before whites with excellent grades" but "the guy has excellent grades but can't afford university, let's support him financially without looking at the color of his skin".
By the way, in theory, races should disappear sooner or later by people having mixed relationships. But in practice, I noticed for some reasons this is not happening at a rate we would hope it happens. There are many social reasons, some are quite strong and obvious. Some less so, like the issue of kids feeling like they don't belong to neither community, and treated in this way by the rest. I remember reading an interview with Vin Diesel saying it was a problem for him when he was younger. As stupid as it seems, for some reason people prefer to "keep with their kind" and trying to pretend race is just a social construct only obscures the issue.
Because race is a social construct it will never disappear because of some real world action like mixed relationships. If it goes away or becomes more central to our lives then it is today it will be because of political choices by people.
Instead of following in this direction, where financial issues are involved, wouldn't it make more sense to discriminate based on income, not skin color? And in a way that actually helps both the person and the society, i.e. not "he got mediocre grades but let's push him into university before whites with excellent grades" but "the guy has excellent grades but can't afford university, let's support him financially without looking at the color of his skin".
By the way, in theory, races should disappear sooner or later by people having mixed relationships. But in practice, I noticed for some reasons this is not happening at a rate we would hope it happens. There are many social reasons, some are quite strong and obvious. Some less so, like the issue of kids feeling like they don't belong to neither community, and treated in this way by the rest. I remember reading an interview with Vin Diesel saying it was a problem for him when he was younger. As stupid as it seems, for some reason people prefer to "keep with their kind" and trying to pretend race is just a social construct only obscures the issue.