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What with the “disproportionate” intellectual attainments of Asian Americans and Jews, it’s virtually certain that natural blondes are drastically underrepresented in the Ivy League. Also Christians, probably.
Charles Murray might say that pretending racial differences don’t exist (or even pretending races don’t exist), when they are obvious to most people, merely allows exaggerated and inaccurate beliefs about race to flourish in the shadows (as it were); and convinces people that you’re lying about other things, too.
For example, I’ve run into people who think that blacks have a genetic tendency toward violent crime. But I point out that the high rate of violent crime in the black community is something that only started developing after 1950 or 1960, so it’s unlikely to have much to do with heredity.
As Sam Harris points out, at least in some respects we live in a society of black privilege, not white privilege. On the false assumption that racial differences don’t exist, Murray would probably agree, the pursuit of racial justice makes society more and more unjust. As Asian kids applying to the Ivy League learn the hard way.