The problem is that the select few are always the ones that are the loudest. There have been multiple petitions for P/F Step due to COVID and what not, but I've never seen a petition going in the other direction. However, blaming COVID is different than using racism as the reason. With everything going on, if this is the loudest voice heard, NBME might be under intense pressure to fold or risk looking racist and being blown up in the media etc for this. For weeks they had a section in their FAQ addressing people demanding P/F. Now, that section is gone and I can't find a statement from them against it anywhere.
These people should be petitioning their schools for extensions on their Step deadline if they feel unable to sit for the exam right now, not pushing for it to be P/F. I don't understand the all-or-nothing argument. Additionally, I feel that as a minority in medicine, POC would actually probably be negatively affected by a P/F Step. Just like DOs or those from low-tier MD schools, the score is an opportunity to rise above the white guy from Harvard. To make the assumption that all POC would benefit from P/F, as the letter seems to state, is kind of unfair to many of those students who have been working hard for the last 2 years to make sure they can overcome bias.