The topic here is what happens when large numbers of unqualified students of a certain demographic are admitted.
My point is that if Affirmative Action results in a professor having a significant number of unprepared and unqualified black students, with the result that a very disproportionate number of them either drop the class or flunk, then that leaves the professor open to racism accusations. Regardless of how ridiculous the charges might objectively be.
A university CANNOT see a large percentage of its black students drop out. To prevent that, they WILL put pressure on professors to either give enough help to the blacks to pass, or fudge the grades of the black students.
You wrote: "A university CANNOT see a large percentage of its black students drop out."
Last I read, the majority of black students already drop out for one reason or another. It doesn't mean they weren't doing well. I am not black, and I never finished college because I could no longer afford to attend. We're all individuals. My college record represents only my performance, not my group's performance. The Left sees people as groups. We're supposed to see people as individuals.
The reason I oppose racial check-boxes in college admissions is that (1) every student should be viewed as an individual, not as part of a group, and (2) "quotas" perpetuate negative and condescending stereotypes as if some groups of people (race or sex) need special help (which is not true).
But, because higher education is heavily subsidized with the taxes we pay, people argue over who gets admitted to which college, and every group believes some other group is receiving preferential treatment. The same is true at the high school level. People are forced to pay for public schools with their taxes, so they argue over who gets into the "better" schools. These arguments will always exist, as long as taxpayers are forced to fund education. That's the real crux of the issue here.