Thre is no way to forget about skin color, it is a visual thing that unless we all go blind, we arent going to just forget about. The goal is to have a society where skin color doesnt matter, not to just pretend we all have the same color of skin.
I agree, performance based seems appropriate.
But that won't happen as long as individual races are singled out for better/for worse... The first [race] [gender] [position/title] is no longer needed in the 21st century.
End does not justify the means...