and a meritocracy is color-blind...

that's why the left rejects "meritocracy" in favor of "affirmative action" to solve the gap between hard work/achievement and results.

Prof: 'meritocracy' is a 'whiteness ideology'
A Pennsylvania State University-Brandywine professor thinks college faculty need to do more to undermine their students' belief in "meritocracy" and the value of "hard work."

The students are "are socialized to believe that we got to where we are…because of our own individual efforts," according to the prof, who wants colleagues to stop "perpetuating and reifying whiteness."
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9874