Do we really need to include race in our analysis? Why not look at all Harvard students?
"Among admits who are African American, Asian American, and Hispanic, the share is less than 16% each."
Injustice can easily be rooted out while also overcoming the concept of race.
The problem is that race-oriented thinkers obsess over race and reify it, actually making racial tension worse.
Again, the racially-oriented thinkers often just exacerbate division.
Even today, COVID 19 affects Black and Latino folks at greater rates. That is a real, physical, manifestation of racial injustice. Ignoring that means ignoring structural problems in America.
However it is America that has come the farthest in overcoming racial discrimination, which is why people from around the world want to come here in droves.
Those groups are disproportionately affected because they are disproportionately living in cities, which has nothing to do with racial oppression.
The Latino population has swelled in recent decades and new immigrants to the US are almost always poorer than the general population. That's been true for the last 200 years and there's nothing wrong with that.
Yet racialists like yourself ignore this and try to claim discrimination. It's intellectually dishonest.
As for Blacks in America, the only thing that will bring them up and negate past discrimination is a improvement of their culture and focusing on the future. Most of black poverty today is caused by broken homes and other cultural issues, not oppression.
Why are you trying to be so blind to race concerns?
Race-based affirmative action misbehaves in exactly the ways its critics predict, but is still wildly popular because of how it feels to white liberals.
As far as I know, legacy admissions have never been challenged before the SCOTUS.
Furthermore, legacy admissions tend to reward underachieving students from privileged families, while affirmative action intends to reward overachieving students from underprivileged circumstances (e.g. programs admitting the top N% of graduates from every high school help good students who went to bad schools).
Bad schools hurt, but discriminating by race at matriculation is about the most hamfisted imaginable way to achieve the outcome you're talking about. If the goal is to find and admit students whose worst academic years are behind them, overadmitting 1st generation Nigerian Americans because they look similar to African Americans is not the way.
P.S. it seems you switch from "tend" to "intend" mid sentence, so I don't grasp what comparison you're trying to draw, maybe give that another shot.
I'm fairly confident in the effect of legacy admissions. As for affirmative action programs, I'm confident in the intent of those programs, but less confident in their effect. Thus the switch in wording.