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Race is a poor proxy metric. Economic status would be a more accurate metric as well as helping people who weren’t necessarily systemically disadvantaged, just really unlucky. It’d be sort of like declaring the whole race unfair and giving everyone who did poorly some bonus time.
Having racial diversity at all levels of performance doesn’t mean that you’ve made it fair, just that the unlucky late-start white racers got absolutely screwed and the lucky early-start black racers got an even bigger advantage. The whole event should just be declared unfair and breaking the analogy, economically struggling people of any race should receive equal support, while wealthy people of any race don’t need to be further propped up based on the color of their skin.