I see some people are reacting negatively to what you're saying. DVs are terrible as a dialog. And I, too, agree the comment leaves kind of a bad taste, but I think because it baldly points out some unpleasant things. I only see these categories of downvotes:
1. I hit the wrong button :)
2. I'm a bigoted member of a majority, and am downvoting because I think minorities should be oppressed.
3. I don't think any questions of race/gender/etc. should ever be considered in a workplace, and and downvoting because I dislike the whole idea.
4. What I suspect is actually happening: Like (3) I think everyone should be considered on their own merits, and you can look at company-wide stats to see if bias is occurring. Its good for the company to act against it in sum, but acting on the basis of race/gender/etc. on an individual basis is shocking and unfair.
The problem with (4) is that you're trying to have some kind of emergent effect that magically appears. It's a goal without being a goal. Worse, its a global goal you want to be actively worked against locally.
Developers love to complain about clueless management that doesn't know what it wants. Guess what folks, it's a common trait. Our other favorite trope is to figure out a technical fix for a people problem. And the problem with that is of course a tech fix only takes care of specific situations and not the underlying problem.
For example, as a tech fix we might decide that all interviews are done in a pitch-black room with vocoder voice synthesizers. Great, no question of race/gender/etc. Except, of course, for selection bias in our candidates. And even after they are hired there's biased reactions (unequal success for equal quality). People just naturally favor familiar attributes, even if those attributes don't contribute to a correct outcome.
So to be consistent, there are really only three choices: a) don't care, let the chips fall where they may; b) have an actual goal to equally represent everyone; c) encourage playing nice, and hope the results aren't too far off.
What actually happens, of course, is d) encourage playing nice, hope the results aren't too far off, then someone actually looks at the results and complains, so flail around trying to avoid doing anything too unpleasant to fix it.