If a young man is barred from a school or a job because the quota for his particular race has been filled, he is barred by reason of his race. Telling him that those admitted are his 'representatives,' is adding insult to injury. The quota doctrine assumes that all members of a given physiological group are identical and interchangeable - not merely in the eyes of other people, but in their own eyes and minds. Offhand, I would say that politically, racism is a result of collectivism and statism. Epistemologically, it is a product of determinism.
Racial quotas are a mockery of justice.
Affirmative action is pure racism. Because they are racist, and it gives them political power. For example Jesse Jackson claims to speak for Black Americans who despise him and oppose his racist, egalitarian policies. The only solution to racism is the doctrine of individualism and the ethics of justice. Individualism holds that each man is a sovereign entity, who forms his own ideas and character by his own thoughts and actions.