Well, over half this country are women and that includes non-whites. Fairness is why.
Really........ so it doesn't matter if you are qualified, but rather to be fair, let's pick whoever fits the pop culture definition of fair?
The irony here is that you would never hold yourself to the same standard.
If you went into the hospital needing heart surgery or something, and they came out and said... well we wanted to give you a highly qualified doctor, but the only one around was a white guy, and we already have enough of those.
To be 'fair' we got you this black guy that had a 2.0 in med school and dropped out, or you can pick this lady that faints at the sight of blood. They may not be qualified.... but this is more 'fair'.
I'm going to take a wild guess, and say you would magically ditch your "fair" crap, and find another hospital... as would any rational intelligent person.
Reminds me of back in the early 2000s I still listened to RW Radio, and I think it was Glen Beck got a call from one of these college educated idiots. Some black student called in and said he could prove Beck was racists.
Beck: "No, I'm not racists."
Moron: "Oh yeah? How many black people are on your staff?"
Beck: "Yeah, and ask me how many black people applied for a job on my staff?"
Moron: "Well you should go and find black people to hire!"
Beck: "Huh? You want me to just randomly start asking black people if they want to be on my staff?"
"Yeah"
At which point Beck just burst out laughing, with his staff, until the guy hung up.
This is how dumb the left-wing is. This makes sense in their world. Beck should have stopped posting jobs, and considering the people who applied, and simply started asking random people if they want a job in radio, regardless of if they have any abilities useful to radio, have any desire to be in radio, have any experience in radio.... but rather... because their skin was a different shade. That alone makes you "qualified" in left-wing idiot world.