That's clearly unfair. The insinuation is that only non-black people can achieve the best qualifications, which seems exceedingly offensive.
What was your intended take-away -- surely not "nepotism/racism are fine if you're black [in USA]"?
My take away was that it really, butt hurts you bad when it happens to you and we as white people rarely experience said butt hurt. It puts things into perspective and I am thankful for that perspective.
Point being, I don't think it was fair and I am not justifying his actions, but it helps me relate to the feeling that black Americans feel. A little empathy goes a long way and the perspective taught me empathy without pandering.
I don't think you understand probability, they would each have equal chance. Isn't that the goal? If course there would be less chance of a "black American" occupying the role, but that would be for exactly the right reason, lower representation in the population from which one is selecting.
>we as white people rarely experience said butt hurt //
Is this perhaps simply down to expectation. The "it's because I is black" meme: if you're a minority in a particular physical characteristic and fail to achieve a role you assume discrimination. The corollary is that whilst discrimination might not be felt emotionally is still unfair to discriminate against a person based on the colour of their skin.
You're right about empathy, but empathy with those suffering racist discrimination is a strange place to decide to be racist.