Its also a anti meritocratic caste system. That desperatly tries to ignore the different academic outcomes various cultures create . So it may be racist, but at least its culture blind.

True, the "culture" of oppressed poverty really does produce poor outcomes...

It's unfortunate that the Affirmative Action initiative wasn't strictly economically based.

I wonder what the academic outcommes will be for the children of Gaza over the next few years? An extreme example to be sure...