It's not a bad launchpad. Basically, the point is to try and allow people of diverse races and genders that may not be as frequent in higher education the opportunity to begin building towards it. The reason that many black people still reside in low income areas is because it is less likely for someone in a low income area to get out and begin making something positive, and the reason why black people were moved to those areas in the first place was due to racism. There's other examples with other races/genders.
It's all about improving the world in a broader spectrum. Does it suck that I could get turned down for an engineering class as it's full, while there are plenty of openings in a woman's specific engineering class? Yeah that would suck. But woman are continuously unhappy and complaining about the wage gap (not realizing that the wage gap is only specific to overall earnings, and has nothing to do with equal work). It's making them unhappy, and the reason behind this is women typically go for nursing jobs instead of surgeon jobs. Equal opportunities programs, like easier college admittance or striving for diversity in the work place, allows that foot on the ladder and the hope is that eventually it can be faded out as every race, gender and creed becomes well represented.
Obviously, this will never happen as no race, creed or gender is actually looking for "equality", but still...
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