You can’t have your cake and eat it too. There are reasons to keep admission criteria different for different races as it is there to creat a homogenous society and there is no need to feel ashamed for affirmative action. It’s there to make up for opportunities that were not offered to URM.
As long as statistics keep proving that URM doesn’t need scores that ORMs do, we can’t deny facts. This is going to change but until then merit URM admits have to live with the stigma that they got in on quota. That doesn’t mean that ANYONE who isn’t racist and ignorant thinks that URM aren’t as intelligent as ORM. However, no matter how politically correct one is, it would be a lie to say that admission statistics are same for ORM and URM. Look at data for medical schools and it becomes even harder to be PC, though we all know that URM communities need more doctors.