&gt; And if that&#x27;s how the world works, then why the criticism of &quot;whitey&quot; being shaken down?<p>I&#x27;m not criticizing it <i>per se</i>. I&#x27;m trying to describe Diversity Inc. as a much simpler phenomenon than it&#x27;s being made out to be. It&#x27;s a battle between two groups with a conflict of interests, and one of those groups isn&#x27;t even taking its own side in the fight. It sounds simplistic, but without an understanding of the basic political dynamics at work, there&#x27;s not much use bickering over the details.<p>As for who is the &quot;best&quot; candidate for a given role, I didn&#x27;t comment on that, but human interactions and group dynamics are highly complex phenomena. The problem as you described it may turn out to be unsolvable. This raises the question of who exactly benefits from these futile attempts to solve it. See above.