Merrill and Kemper understood this 60 years ago https://stacker.news/items/1289513/r/jamalderrick:  if you only measure what the privileged can easily accumulate, you’ll keep selecting the privileged. ‘Race-neutral’ doesn’t discover merit.  It stops looking for it.

Yermin

Question: If the goal is merit and equal treatment, what evidence would show these agencies are enforcing neutral standards—rather than reallocating enforcement toward one political story?

Well if we measure everyone's test scores, it's going to be Asian, white, light hispanic, dark hispanic, black. That should be taken as evidence of a merit-based non-discriminating system, but the people on the lower range feel differently.

Politics_And_Law

NYT: Trump Says Civil Rights Led to White People Being 'Very Badly Treated'

> Question: If the goal is merit and equal treatment, what evidence would show these agencies are enforcing neutral standards—rather than reallocating enforcement toward one political story?

Well if we measure everyone's test scores, it's going to be Asian, white, light hispanic, dark hispanic, black. That should be taken as evidence of a merit-based non-discriminating system, but the people on the lower range feel differently.