Prometheus 6

Two wrongs do not make a right, but it does produce equality.

...The truth is that the effects of racism cannot be offset without the practice of racism. Inequality was created from unequal treatment of equal peoples. The only way to undo the effects of unequal treatment is to reverse the unequal treatment. Mathematically, inequalities are created when an equation that was once equal is manipulated asymmetrically. In other words, one side is treated out of balance with the other, changing the equality to an inequality. A fundamental rule of mathematics is that in order to maintain equality, both sides must be treated equally. Thus, the only cure for inequality is to go forward with reversing the unequal treatment of sides. That is the only solution that logic provides.

My preferred phrasing is, "The only way to undo specific exclusion based on a quality is to practice specific inclusion based on that same quality." It provides no place one can hang folks' visceral reaction to race on while leaving no doubt what I'm talking about.