In another argument on affirmative action, Thomas Sowell points out that having minority faculty members doesn't seem to make much of a difference to minority student achievement.

The argument that minority students need minority professors as "role models" also does not fit the facts. Black students and female students do just as well when they are taught by white male professors as they do when they are taught by people who are physically similar to themselves.

Shouldn't this have been obvious is you buy into the idea that the color of your skin doesn't matter?