The U.S. Supreme Court today struck down most of the University of Michigan’s diversity-driven admissions policies. At least they said that race can play a part in the process, and admitted that the government has a compelling interest in promoting diversity in graduate school classrooms.

But I’m just sick and tired of all these nickel-and-dime solutions like "striving" for better representation of minorities in college admissions. What good does that do? Just admitting minorities to the top universities doesn’t guarantee success, so it’s a waste of time and money. We need to get beyond this patchwork "solution" that in reality only perpetuates the status quo.

Every person in America deserves an equal shot at the best jobs, so it’s only fair that the best jobs go to people of each race in proportion to the race’s population in society. We’re never gonna get there by manipulating admissions to guarantee proportional admission; Blacks and Hispanics cannot succeed at the same rate as Whites and Asians because they haven’t had the same advantages growing up. The only way to ensure that equal percentages of each race graduate is to admit disproportionately more Blacks and Hispanics and fewer Whites and Asians.

But equal rates of graduation won’t equalize job opportunities, because successful Black and Hispanic graduates will not be as well-qualified because of their disadvantaged backgrounds, and because they will be entering the workforce with the stigma of not being able to achieve on their own merit. The only way to make sure that equal percentages of each race will be hired is to skew admissions so disproportionately that graduation rates will be disproportionate enough to facilitate proportionate entry into the workforce.

But even forcing companies to hire the right numbers from each race will not result in proportionate numbers climbing the corporate ladder and attaining the most desirable positions, because there’s too much institutionalized racism and because the minorities hired will not be as well-qualified as Whites and Asians (for the reasons above). The only way to achieve the correct percentages of each race in positions of power, affluence, and influence is to require grossly more minority admissions than would be proportionate, so that graduation rates will be sufficiently disproportionate that minorities will be hired at a disproportionately high rate at entry-level positions. Only then can we attain what society is striving for.

Mathematically, it’s easy to see that the quickest way to achieve this long-sought goal of racial equality is to adopt the following admissions policies at all universities: First, every Black applicant gets admitted. Since Blacks constitute only about 12% of the population and more than 12% of high school seniors go on to college, we know there will be openings remaining. The second step is that all Hispanic applicants get admitted if there’s room for them. (If there’s not enough room for all the Hispanics, ties would be broken by merit: the best students don’t need college as much as the worst students, so those most in need should be admitted.) If there are any seats left after all Blacks and Hispanics are admitted, the remaining seats would go to non-Jewish White students, with the same merit system helping to assign the seats to the neediest students. Of course, there are so many White students that there would never be any spots left for Asians or Jews, but they don’t need more education anyway—they already have unfair advantages over everyone else.