“I don’t care if every seat is held by an Asian if they’ve earned the right to be there.” - Ronald Reagan
Agreed.
Reagan was dead wrong about that and that kind of nihilistic attitude is what brought us to the current immigration crisis. Remember, Reagan was an amnesty fanatic who argued for an “open border” with Mexico in the 1979 debate with Bush Senior. We are living with the consequences of Reagan’s foolishness on immigration. The same kind foolish thinking is at work in your quote.
Of course it matters what the ethnic makeup an institution is, especially an elite institution that wields so much power in our society.