Not only do they not deal with the problem at the core, these types of well meaning but misguided ideas often end up perpetuating the very problem they are meant to address.

So much of the policies from the left on race are examples of the shirky principle in action:

https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-shirky-prin/

“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” — Clay Shirky

This is a great article from Shelby Steele, an African-American senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institute on the issue:

http://archive.is/EXl8N#selection-1951.267-1955.491