However, so long as the federal funds were distributed equitably, states could circumvent this anti-discrimination provision by establishing separate institutions for white and black citizens.

That leads to load imbalance in a distributed file system, meaning that the file chunks are not distributed equitably between the nodes.

If the group shares assets (income, vehicles, etc.), they are distributed equitably throughout the group, and each member has access to more-or-less the same resources as any other member.