What affirmative action is supposed to do is to ensure that your race isn't a determining factor in not getting hired for a job that you are qualified for. No,

What affirmative action is supposed to do is to ensure that your race isn't a determining factor in not getting hired for a job that you are qualified for. No, that's wrong. If that were the goal, it would simply be made illegal to ask about race (or race-proxy) on college application forms. Affirmative action is meant to artifically boost the number of college graduates from a selected set of underrepresented backgrounds. If it weren't the goal, this blind recruitment trial wouldn't have been immediately canceled: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-trial-to-improve-gender-equality-failing-study/8664888 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tri...