I think you are describing the situation well. I would put myself in the bucket of equal opportunity. I prefer addressing the causes, and think poverty is a better proxy for the core issue than skin color, and doesn't have the collateral damage.

A black and a white children of dirt poor single mothers are both going to have major headwinds in life.

A black and white children of married techies and doctors are both going to start with a good hand.

Addressing the problem at the college admission stage is just juicing the numbers in a way that says our University is care more about your skin color than what you can do.

It would be far better to look at what we can do to keep kids in school, stabilize their home lives, and make them into competitive college applicants.

This is the route to address equal outcome that doesn't result in unfair circumstances at the individual level. It's slower to show results, but I think it's the only thing they'll actually get there in the end.

If all we care about is the numbers, we could just give honorary diplomas to kids that can't even read and make the numbers work.