This preference for hiring blacks over all others has been going on for years. I retired from an assistant to the head and dept. supervisor position at a major state university (UIC-Math) in Chicago about 19 years ago, I handled the hiring process for new Profs and Grad Asst’s for the dept. among other duties, including new hire visa matters.
The Profs, initially majority white, started hiring mostly foreigners rather than U.S. citizens, many of whom were minorities, primarily Asians or Muslims (not too many Black Profs available in Math). Through the university’s civil service process, administrative support staff was where affirmative action kicked in and the university got its quota of primarily blacks first, then hispanics, asians and then whitey on the bottom of the totem pole when choice could be made.
White students themselves were discriminated against when it came to who was awarded monetary grants, awards, placements for student part-time jobs, etc. The whole system back then became totally slanted towards hiring minorities and/or foreign staff members, and that was a long time ago.
It all actually started up in the 60’s when campuses became much more radicalized. Now it has permeated every state university and most private ones too. Good luck whitey. Get in the back of the line. Merit? What a silly concept.
Blacks believe merit and math is racist....a bad idea for airplanes and bridges.