The Grievance Industrial Complex
The latest "industrial complex" is the grievance industrial complex -- growing on campus as it's grown off-campus (with the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson making a handsome profit by riding "blame whitey" like a pony).

For these campus activists, it's a far better source of power than they'd ever have access to through their study of, oh, post-structuralist hegemonic hoohah.

Walter E. Williams points out in this Daily Signal piece, that yes, of course there's racial discrimination.

However:

Today, only a little over 30 percent of black children are raised in two-parent households. The importance of these and other statistics showing greater stability and less pathology among blacks in earlier periods is that they put a lie to today's excuses. Namely, at a time when blacks were closer to slavery, faced far more discrimination, faced more poverty, and had fewer opportunities, there was not the kind of social pathology and weak family structure we see today.

Booker T. Washington figured it out long ago about those who get rich from keeping black people down -- and, no, it's not just cretins in white hoods. Far from it:

As Booker T. Washington long ago observed, "there is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs--partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs."