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Because whenever you try to target class, it ends up excluding on race.
Every single time it just so happens that white applicants hoovered up all the available program benefits and NOBODY ever knows why!
Not to mention the racial wealth gap, it is impossible to achieve racial equality so long as the same amount is being given to everyone. All that's doing is maintaining the current wealth gap, it does nothing to close the gap.
Equality will not be achieved until white people can fucking let go of the fact that black folks have to get stuff that white people will not for everyone to be on the same playing field, and that's just economically, we're not even talking about how "just hire the most qualified candidate!" only ever seems to be an issue when the qualified candidate is a PoC.
That's an implementation / corruption issue, then. Fix the root cause, not the symptoms.
Assuming 90% of PoC qualify, and 30% of whites (or whatever the actual numbers are), if everybody has an equal chance at aid based on their wealth, PoC should receive the majority of aid. If that's not happening, I refer you back to point 1.
The root cause is the racism.
Black people are poorer on average because of systemic racism, and they get shut out of benefits not specifically sectioned for them and them alone because of systemic racism.
Poor whites aren't poor because of literal centuries of being treated as literal farm animals, complete with actual husbandry programs when importation became illegal.
Poor whites aren't struggling to find affordable housing because of being specifically excluded from New Deal era housing loans.
Poor whites aren't facing all that on top of being disproportionately likely to just randomly get murdered by the fucking cops.
Poor Whites can afford to sit the fuck down and let the black folks have what was intended for them.
There is no such thing as the White Race. Slavs and Irish are not the same as WASPs.