While each individual thing you are saying makes sense, at the end of the day college admissions is generally about educational achievement — for example, Asians are notoriously underrepresented in sports teams, but they are generally not affirmative actioned onto them.

I did a bit of digging and I wouldn’t be surprised if Black athletes have to score well + be educationally accomplished as well, while white athletes don’t. 75% of those “special admits” would otherwise have not gotten in. That sounds like affirmative action to me… (and this is all only white people).

The point is: one in three white people at Harvard is actually not “as smart/accomplished” as the rest of the class, yet people make that assumption about Black people, although affirmative action for them is letting in equally qualified people, not less qualified people. That is just blatant racism.

Also blatant racism: Asians routinely scoring lower on “kindness” or “respect from peers,” as if an admissions officer can actually tell that. Remove race as an identifier and suddenly Asians are equally “kind” and have equally good “personalities.” Racist admissions officers assume Asian names belong to people who are “unkind” or “uncool.”