I agree with the research excellence part. That's how we should be considering grant applications. However, this report specifically made race-based scholarships and race-based hiring for professors as a recommendation, without any empirical evidence to suggest that race would be a barrier to linguistic ability. It even admits that it is not a barrier and they don't have information to justify that. We just had a witness who wrote the report say that. They made that recommendation anyway.
Are you suggesting that your organization would reject this recommendation of race-based scholarships? You mentioned that we should be reviewing everything on the basis of excellence.