sirencall .. exactly .. not only do people like P111 act as if the top tier of candidates wouldn't include anything but white guys .. but also as if there's a fine-grained, perfectly objective and universally accepted test of merit in the first place. 
Ha!
Of course, appointments are already made using all kinds of political, regional and other temporal and subjective criteria .. including when white guys are chosen, obviously .. and yet P111 and his ilk choose to complain about diversity .. as if that's somehow less valid than the rest of the horse-trading that goes on.
It's pretty obvious what their real complaint is: a perceived loss of power for their tribe.