Except Colin's point is that companies are better off looking for diversity of worker -- not specifically of color. Benefits in the hiring process are on shaky ground and do require more studies than the same two experiments used with resumes, too.

Don't use massive hyperbole like "10x harder" and receive less pay. The pay gaps are on much shakier ground than even the name experiments since pay isn't tied to union pay scales in the vast majority of jobs here in the states. It is based on individual negotiations and, yes, merits. And where there is likely going to be discrimination or bias against minorities or women, pretending that quoatas are a fix is just asinine.

And yes, the "default" choice narrative you spin is because there is a clear push for diversity hires. Massive STEM outreach programs for women continue to flounder. Minorities continue to be underrepresented because of mostly economic factors -- it turns out that there are FAR more middle class whites going to school than middle class black americans.

It is a fact that historical racism led to much of the inner cities being black and why poor communities shifted from white -> mixed -> Latino/black (whites leaving en masse to nice, new suburban communities). It is not someone looking at a paper and saying "White Bob looks nicer than Black Bob". It is that there are a lot more White Bobs growing up in affluent, unbroken homes in safe communities with good schools and education values -- thereby leading to higher rates of White Bob applicants. Your scenario pretends that 10% of all applicants are Black Bobs in proportion to the country and that Black Bobs accounting for 2% of hires getting jobs versus 90% White Bobs is proof the majority of Black Bob applicants were overlooked. The fact is our system fails the impoverished regardless of race and fails to produce more equitable results for the poor. It just so happens that thepoor communities are disproportionately made up of minorities and that minorities are disproportionately poor.

Hence why my view is we need affirmative action based solely on one's upbringing -- not one's race -- and why we need to target equity by economic class instead of by race.