I think the levels of the analogy are getting messy. equal opportunity is, in my analogy, each student having the 5 apples. What they do with the energy and nutrition from the 5 apples is variable, but getting them all to the even playing field of 5 apples is the goal. And the law (the law in this case being the rules in place to get them all to equal opportunity) simply cannot treat them all equally as they are not equal, the needed input to get them all to the same opportunity is simply not equal. Haveing the Laws of "apple stimulus" treat them equally would be foolish.
So lets drop the analogy and go back to the real world, to get to an even playing field, to have an equal chance at life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for everyone, regardless of the demographic they occupy, demands that the law address that demographic inequity. And just like with the apples and the students, giving the same amount of civil rights legal help to Latinos, Black Folk, Gays, Straits, White Folk, etc makes no more sense than giving all of the students the same number of apples regardless of how many they started with.