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I think the issue here is an assumption that someone inherently has less advantages based on race.
For instance, in high school 90% of the students were PoC where I grew up. I got the same education. In college it was 50/50 split for both students and teachers and in university it was about as diverse.
My last job had PoC employees and a trans manager. None of them were given special treatment or negative treatment. They just deserved the positions they had.
My current job has multiple PoC employees in either the same line of work as me or higher up the chain. I've never seen them treated with anything but respect.
So my view that people being treated equally, regardless of color, is based on seeing a society that allows that. We don't have vastly separated neighbourhoods, our schools aren't segregated by their pricing (free), and our higher education is affordable for everyone.
If people need to look at someone and think "we should help them, they're PoC and probably poor and uneducated" then you're country is fucked up and the goal should be making these things available to everyone *equally*. That's not a race issue at that point, it's just a poor issue, of which the majority are PoC due to *past* racism.
I suppose your goal should be being able to look at people as.. well, people, not colors. But your country and government necessitates viewing them as some downtrodden mass. To me, that makes equity seem like a potentially necessary bandaid until actual changes are made. But people view the bandaid as the solution, ignoring the cause.
Lastly, I must assume you live in the US, as this is generally the only country where this is prevalent.
There's nothing here!