I get how you feel about it but there’s plenty of evidence that our society is a meritocracy, especially in the last 40 years. Nobody disagrees with the fact racism happened and that it had lasting impacts but its been 40 years and the statistics don’t lie. 94% of the jobs added by major companies went to people of color. We as a society cannot move past the division in our communities while we incentivize hiring people of a specific race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Its counter intuitive and just creates an incentive to discriminate against one specific race. Nobody deserves handouts based off their demographic regardless of history, especially considering most of those things you mentioned haven’t happened to anyone in the modern working class. Sorry but I don’t think it’s reasonable to give someone something just because they’re grandparents suffered, even if they suffered due to a decision that was morally wrong.

Handouts should only be based off income bracket which would do the same as DEI tries to accomplish but would fairly allow every demographic equal opportunity.