At the root of disagreements over "diversity, equity, and inclusion" (DEI) are different assumptions regarding both Black and white.

Along these lines, there exists on the left a deep pessimism regarding the ability of Black people to compete with other groups. At the heart of their efforts to save DEI (and the racial preferences it contains) is the assumption that they can't be expected to make progress without such assistance -- they started out too far behind and a "colorblind" world would only leave them still further.

The legacy of slavery and Jim Crow did so much damage that it can probably never be repaired, hence the need for special help, likely in perpetuity (there being no proclaimed end point or metric for measuring progress, or even any stated definition of what progress would look like so we could know it when we saw it).

The left points out that if preferences are removed in college admissions, to the point where only objective factors such as test scores were considered, there would be far fewer Black students in our selective colleges (and law schools and medical schools); a circumstance that would consequently reduce Black presence and progress in the professions and corporate world.

Critics of DEI and the racial preferences and quotas that go with it don't necessarily disagree with this prediction; they do,........

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