When peddling left-wing equality policy, there's no selling point quite like claiming there are too many whiteys about. So when there aren't, you simply dissemble. A case in point is the effort by Mayor Bill de Blasio to "diversify" NYC's "Elite Eight" public high schools.
De Blasio and his schools chancellor, Richard Carranza, are unhappy there aren't "enough" blacks and Hispanics at the elite schools, so they'd cooked up a scheme to eliminate the institutions' admissions exams (which, ensuring that only the most capable students gain entrance, are the only reason the schools are elite in the first place).