That is the whole point of Affirmative Action. The 1978 Supreme Court case ruled that, although discrimination is bad, it is acceptable so long as it is reverse discrimination, or as Robert noted: “as long as the people being oppressed are people you think should be.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regents_of_the_University_of_California_v._Bakke
“Proponents deemed such programs necessary to make up for past discrimination … The practical effect of Bakke was that most affirmative action programs continued without change.”

Typical of Social Justice, it is OK to oppress or to punish the innocent for the sins of others who can be associated in some way with those innocents. In this case, it is skin color that creates that association. No wonder Elizabeth Warren claims to be American Indian and Rachel Dolezal claimed to be black. White privilege is not as beneficial as some would have us believe.