The same thing happened in teaching.
Yeah, I had a few “quota’s” as teachers and they were horrible. Had at least one good black teacher though.
But there are ways to do this. And lowering the standards and quotas are not the right ways. Incentives/scholarships to get better applicants into the academy, so that you don’t have to lower standards is the right way to fix this problem.
And the incentives shouldn’t be a forever thing, just until the racial disparity is corrected.
In medicine also. Blacks who fail a year in med school often get to repeat. Everyone else is shown the door.
And this hurts blacks most of all! Quality black MD's become suspect, and those in med school get the message: no need to do your best. If you fail, there will be do-overs.