But those provide a way of protecting against racism, even with measures like affirmative action or the fight
against segregation based in the fallout from racism (social / cultural / geographical segregation, for example).
Although that movement often deploys the rhetoric of equity and diversity to rationalize itself and enlists compelling, community -
based representatives to promote its agenda, that agenda has typically worked
against community interests and exacerbated inequities — draining resources from struggling districts, deepening
segregation, diverting attention from systemic change to individual choice, and so on.
It has also served as the
basis for such critical Supreme Court cases like Brown v. Board of Education (barring racial
segregation in education) and Loving v. Virginia (striking down laws
against interracial marriage).