Yes, but this sort of gotcha study is missing the fact that any merit-based system will discriminate against minorities that are not given a proper education.

Yes, but this sort of gotcha study is missing the fact that any merit-based system will discriminate against minorities that are not given a proper education. Explicitly filtering by race is bad. However, if it leads to the same outcome as filtering by qualifications, then forcing people to switch hiring practices doesn’t actually improve anything. The blame shouldn’t be on the hiring process, but instead (at least in the US) by the politicians that have set up our cities and schools to be systematically racist. (I still think this is a bad SCOTUS ruling, to be clear.)