Quotas are a form of systemic and institutional racism. You are intentionally choosing people based on their sex, gender, and other characteristics unrelated to their job qualifications.

Individual discrimination is illegal and these days if any institution demonstrates a pattern of discrimination, the legal consequences are pretty substantial.

A natural outcome of identity politics is to dehumanize people. At the extreme, identity politics leads to things like the holocaust or the genocide against the Uighurs.

You cannot prevent individual racism. I frequently debate with a black man, who opposes inter racial relationships. I don't advocate inter racial relationships, but I think if you don't make skin color important, they happen. My experience is personal. My wife is Asian, my daughter in law is African, and the father of my daughter's child is Haitian (they are no longer together).

I believe we should take legal action if an institution practices systemic and institutional racism. But do you think universities that cap Asian and Jewish applicants should be able to discriminate against them in favor of "equity” and quotas? What did those children do to deserve being discriminated against.

My two youngest children felt that discrimination when they applied to college. How is an 18-year-old girl supposed to feel, when she studies hard in high school, earns a 4.38 GPA, is a member of the National Honor Society, has a killer list of activities and organizes food drives for the local soup kitchen feel, when not a single state university accepts her because they have their quota of Asian students and "need" more black students.

I ran physician groups for a living. How is a black physician supposed to feel when even black patients avoid them because they are afraid the black doctor got into medical school so the school could hit its black student quota?

As the grandfather of five African American grandchildren and two white grandchildren, and knowing any future additions will be Asian American, all I want is for them to be selected "based on their merits" and not skin color.

Had you applied to my last company, and you were a white female, had I been trying to meet racial quotas, I would have rejected you for being both white and female. Health care is a minority and female dominated industry and while more males are entering the field, I am not sure they should get preference.

Women dominate management in nursing positions, does that mean women should be told to understand, they are not getting promoted because the organization simply has to many women in nursing management positions.

There are better ways to determine if a company is discriminating and I support them facing legal action if they do. But if you make quotas a criterion for hiring, you create problems... you don't solve them.

There is a huge difference between prohibiting racial discrimination and insisting on it in order to fix inequities in the racial makeup of an organization. The best example of hypocrisy in this area is the black athletes disproportionately dominate the NBA and Hispanic athletes disproportionately dominate baseball. Should those sports be forced to comply with racial quotas to achieve racial equity. My guess is most people will say “no”, because "winning" is more important than racial quotas.

But isn't the same thing true of doctors, pilots, etc. Do you think a physician should have to share the "class rank" so you can discern whether race was a factor in their selection to medical school. Do you want the pilot flying you across the nation at 30,000 feet being a "quota'" hire.

I believe as a nation of immigrants we need to embrace integration as a core value. But I also believe that has to be done by making discrimination illegal, not institutionalizing it. That latter triggers racial resentment.

If we want to accelerate integration the best way is to fix our schools. My brother founded a Charter School in Jersey City. Last year, 100% of the senior class graduated, 94% got accepted into college, 75% of the children came from families disproportionately black living below the poverty line. I would love to track how these children end up doing in life because they were given a good education. If as I believe, they end up integrated into the economic and social fabric of our society, that will prove we need to address problems in our educational system, not try to mask those problems with quotas.