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Note that a majority of the employees can easily be from underrepresented groups.

The statistic, just like the other ones, doesn't tell you whether these firings were reasonable or not.

Our labor laws are so weak in this country this is nearly impossible to determine unless someone fucked up.

Affirmative action at the companies I’ve worked at was hard to hire less qualified individuals into roles. Those folks were often under performing but marked as “meets” at request of hr. Now with economy and other factors, they are being performance managed out given a worse output/impact than peers at same level.

That's worthy of further investigation to understand if there's bias in these decisions or some other explanatory factor.

this seems like it could easily be a symptom of aff action policies. Making it so firings have to be perfectly representative will discourage companies like these from taking a chance on an underrepresented candidate who might have a slightly weaker resumé if they are stuck with the decision